Close of Play: György Kurtág's operatic setting of Beckett's Endgame is given its UK premiere at this years Proms with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
It's work of deep sadness rather than bitter humour, and beautifully done, even though the vast performing space never quite suggests the play's claustrophobia
My review for The Guardian:-
@rlavery2 Well all right then.
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President Trump:
Hang on, Donald. Word is that a million-man MAGA militia is assembling to save you. The operation is being led by a General Godot. Stay strong. Help is on the way.
#Trump #TrumpSoScared #IndictmentsAreComing #Godot #Beckett
#Beckett #godot #indictmentsarecoming #trumpsoscared #Trump
What might have been: Samuel Beckett writes to Sergei Eisenstein (March 1936) #Beckett #Eisenstein #film
In bicicletta al tempio di Delfi https://www.carmillaonline.com/2023/01/21/in-bicicletta-al-tempio-di-delfi/ #Alculminedelladisperazione #Lapersuasioneelarettorica #Fascinazionedellacenere #CarloMichelstaedter #Recensioni #EmilCioran #nichilismo #Zibaldone #Leopardi #Beckett
#Beckett #leopardi #Zibaldone #nichilismo #emilcioran #recensioni #CarloMichelstaedter #Fascinazionedellacenere #Lapersuasioneelarettorica #Alculminedelladisperazione
Thinking about old #art that stalled and wasn’t finished… an #ExpandedPainting based on #text by #SamuelBeckett. New #studio, a new look at lingering ideas.
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Oil on aluminum, two pieces @ 20” x 6” x 6”
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#painting #abstractpainting #abstractart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpainting #Beckett
#art #expandedpainting #text #samuelbeckett #studio #painting #abstractpainting #abstractart #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpainting #Beckett
@Lichtenbergian I've spent more time with Samuel
Beckett than is healthy! - my demo of opera from Beckett radio play for your entertainment (I sing all) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1224mj8ge61kumx/Mission%20Road%20FINAL%20-%20Computer.m4v?dl=0 #opera #beckett #musicvideo
Aus der #Dlf Audiothek | #Kalenderblatt | Vor 70 Jahren uraufgeführt – Samuel Becketts „Warten auf #Godot“ – Sternstunde des Absurden Theaters https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.3265.de.html?mdm:audio_id=dira_DLF_6fdfc779
#hortipp #Beckett #dlf #kalenderblatt #godot
RT @Letnapark@twitter.com
Wir alle werden verrückt geboren. Manche bleiben es.
UA 5.1.1953 Paris: En attendant #Godot
(8.9.1953 Dt. Premiere: Warten auf Godot, Schlossparktheater Berlin)
Hätte ich gewusst, [wer Godot ist,] hätte ich das Stück nicht geschrieben.- #Beckett
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Letnapark/status/1610890415279857664
RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT
— Samuel Beckett’s 1984 telegram to The Times
(Resolutions: Zero. Hopes: Zero.)
#NewYearsResolutions #Beckett #Vorsätze
https://samuelbeckettsociety.org/2018/01/01/samuel-beckett-new-year-resolution/
#vorsatze #Beckett #newyearsresolutions
At the end of 1983, The Times newspaper invited a number of authors to write about their resolutions and hopes for the New Year. Samuel Beckett replied by telegram:
RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT
Ussher was a regular contributor to the Dublin Magazine and The Bell, a president of the Irish Academy of Letters for twelve years and a correspondent of Samuel #Beckett.
Bio: https://www.dib.ie/biography/ussher-percy-arland-a8776
His mother, Emily Ussher, should also be remembered: from a reforming family (the Judd's), she wrote "The Trail of the Black and Tans" under a pseudonym to highlight to those in Britain the atrocities being committed in their name by the Black and Tans
https://www.ireland.anglican.org/news/11254/the-true-story-of-a
Good night with Samuel Beckett, who died otd in 1989.
IL MUSICISTA-LOGGIONISTA: SAMUEL BECKETT https://il-musicista-loggionista.blogspot.com/2022/12/samuel-beckett.html?spref=tw #Beckett #SamuelBeckett #Ireland #Writer #Book #Poetry #Theater #NobelPrize #13aprile
#Beckett #samuelbeckett #ireland #writer #book #poetry #theater #nobelprize #13Aprile
Samuel Beckett sends Christmas greetings to his friend Jack B. Yeats in a Dublin nursing home, #OTD in 1956 #JackBYeats #Beckett #Christmas
#otd #jackbyeats #Beckett #christmas
@BiancoeNero mentre cresce un'intensa disperazione. Stupendo teatro dell'assurdo
#beckett
After years of rejections, Samuel Beckett finally found a publisher for Watt in Paris in 1953. I photographed this copy of the Olympia Press first edition in the window of Shakespeare and Company in spring 2018, along with the reflection of the still-intact Notre-Dame de Paris. #Beckett #Paris #publishing #Shakespeare&Company #NotreDame
#Beckett #paris #publishing #shakespeare #notredame