PARADE AND OTHER WORKS FOR PIANO FOUR HANDS

Throughout the history of music there has always been the contrapuntal struggle between convention and innovation. In the end, the t rue innovators make their mark and change the structure of music forever. Erik Satie, the great twentieth-century French composer, w as just such an innovator.Even though he was associated with the avant-garde artistic movements of early twentieth century Paris C ubism, Surrealism, Dadaism, and Neo-Classicism Satie neither aligned himself with any particular group nor followed a particular d octrine. T...[Read more]