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...Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe"), it is with an incomparable delicacy of taste that he transforms personal fetishes into profound insight...
...John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to write his way out of the Depression. The familiar Bradbury style was set early: an amalgam of myth, sentiment and evocations of Poe and H.G. Wells. At 26 he was already being asked where he got all his ideas. With that kind of reader interest, he felt secure enough to marry a bookseller named Marguerite McClure. They settled in the creaky beach community of Venice, Calif. Recalls Bradbury: "If a time machine were...
Debussy: The Fall of the House of Usher; Andre Caplet: Conte Fantastique (for harp and strings); Florent Schmitt: Etude pour "Le Palais Hante." (Georges Pretre conducting the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel.) Thanks to the translations of Baudelaire and Mallarme, the works of Edgar Allan Poe became popular in France during the late 19th century. Inevitably, they cast their spell on the imaginations of the country's leading composers; Debussy, for example, long considered writing a pair of one-act operas based on Poe's fantasies. He made a start on The Fall of the House of Usher, preparing...
...beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last about an hour; Allende-Blin's realization runs a little more than 22 tantalizing minutes. What a pity that there is not more...
...other two works on the album also evoke Poe's haunted world. Conte Fantastique, a piquant harp concerto by Debussy's acolyte Andre Caplet, is based on the short story The Masque of the Red Death, and Schmitt's orchestral tone poem draws its inspiration from the poem "The Haunted Palace." Pretre gives each work a suitably atmospheric reading, emphasizing Debussy's gloom, Caplet's lightness and Schmitt's vigor...