Kurt Weill Jazz, Modernism Born: 2 March 1900, Dessau-Roßlau, Germany Nationality: German-American Died: 3 April 1950, New York, USA
Weill was a leading composer for the stage and best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht with works such as ‘The Threepenny Opera.’ Weill held the ideal that music should serve a socially useful purpose and wrote several works on Jewish themes
Nature’s lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou didst not understand The mystic language of the eye nor hand: Nor couldst thou judge the difference of the air Of sighs, and say, This lies, this sounds despair: Nor by th’ eyes water call a malady Desperately hot, or changing feverously. I had not taught thee, then, the Alphabet Of flowers, how they devisefully being set And bound up might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely, and mutually. Remember since all thy words used to be To every suitor, Ay, if my friends agree; Since, household charms, thy husband’s name to teach, Were all the love tricks that thy wit could reach; And since, an hour’s discourse could scarce have made One answer in thee, and that ill arrayed In broken proverbs and torn sentences. Thou art not by so many duties his, That from the world’s Common having severed thee, Inlaid thee, neither to be seen, nor see, As mine: who have with amorous delicacies Refined thee into a blisful Paradise. Thy graces and good words my creatures be; I planted knowledge and life’s tree in thee, Which Oh, shall strangers taste? Must I alas Frame and enamel plate, and drink in glass? Chaf wax for others’ seals? break a colt’s force And leave him then, being made a ready horse?
John Donne Born: 22 January 1572, London, UK Nationality: English Died: 31 March 1631, London, UK
Donne was a poet, scholar, soldier, and secretary. Born to a recusant family, he later became a cleric in the Church of England. He was made Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, London under royal patronage. Donne is considered a preeminent metaphysical poet with poetry renowned for their metaphysical and sensual style, including sonnets, religious poems, love poems, elegies, and satires. Donne is also renowned for his sermons
Harbor Mole 1913 Cubism Oil on Canvas Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
In ‘Harbor Mole’ Feininger draws on Cubist faceting of forms to evoke the power of wind and water with an image of a brutal coastline, Seascapes and harbourscapes are featured strongly across Feininger’s career.
Lyonel Feininger Modern Art, Expressionism, Cubism, Der Blaue Reiter Born: 17 July 1871, New York, USA Nationality: German-American Died: 13 January 1956, New York, USA
Feininger was a painter and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He is also known as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. His work, characterized by prismatically broken, overlapping forms in translucent colours with references to architecture and the se made him one of the most important artists of classical modernism
Tart Tart Album: Squirrel and G-Man Twenty-Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) Date: 1987 Genre: Pop Artist: Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are a rock band formed in Salford, UK in 1980. The original lineup consisted of Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Gary Whelan (drums), Paul Davis (Keyboard), and Mark Day (guitar). Bez Berry later joined the band as a dancer/percussionist and Rowetta joined in 1990 as a second vocalist