Velvet Gentleman
Nick Richardson: Erik Satie, 4 June 2015
A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
edited by Ornella Volta, translated by Antony Melville.
Atlas, 224 pp., £17.50, June 2014,978 1 900565 66 0 Show More
edited by Ornella Volta, translated by Antony Melville.
Atlas, 224 pp., £17.50, June 2014,
“... had to be called.By the time Satie broke with Cocteau he was already working on a ballet with Francis Picabia called Relâche based on a script about Parisian nightlife by Blaise Cendrars, and in December 1924 it opened at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. It wasn’t unconfrontational. The set was studded with 370 mirrors and scrawled with graffiti ... ”