Lucienne Boyer - Quand tu seras dans mes bras, 1933

[alexwirtz68]

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2) Gdzie można znaleźć w Polsce giełdy od starych płytek - nie będę kolecjonował tak namiętnie jak Pan, ale kilkanaście egzemplarzy bym chętnie sobie kupił (drugi mój projekt muzyczny polega na samplingu starych, prawie zapomnianych utworów) ?

Z szacunkiem, Alex W

[alexwirtz68]

Panie Grzegorze! Panski kanał jest po prostu rewelacją! Jeżeli mi wolno zadawaćkilka pytań:

1) Zna pan może kapelę, która gra muzykę z czasu międzywojennego? Jestem gitarzystą w stylu Django Reinhardt, i co prawdę cieżko mi tu znaleźć muzyków o podobnych skłonnościach (tu to znaczy Poznań)?

(ciąg dalszy w następnej wiadomości)

[VocusDwabe]

Oh, by the way, Benda's illustrations are very apposite here. Lucienne Boyer was herself a model for the artist Foujita in the early 1920s.

Her career was a varied one: lost her father killed in action in the first days of WW1 and had to go and work in a munitions factory where she discovered her remarkable singing talent in lunch-break theatricals. Throughout her life she just threw herself 100% into everything she did. She didn't just sing the songs, she WAS the songs.

[VocusDwabe]

The thing about Lucienne Boyer is that she was "just" an amateur singer - but an amateur so superbly good that she knocked the operatically-trained professionals clean out of the ring: everything done with such passion and sincerity. The occasional slight wobbles in her voice make it all the more charming.

She retained a following in Poland well into the 1960s, long after she'd become démodé in France. My wife's cousin interviewed her in Warsaw when she did a concert there c.1959.

[bad0fun]

Delicioso....

[DancesWithSuzy]

Bravo! Thanks!

[dzheger]

A nice tender song and beautiful eclectic art combining some of the period styles including Symbolism, I believe.

[Masquerade03]

What a sincere and elegant performance! Benda slideshow is superb. He was really an artist of great taste! Thanks Grzegorz for discover him to me!

[240252]

He was Polish and I am Polish, but only once upon the times I happened to see a few of his paintings, to completely forget about him until a few weeks ago I came across some of his Shrine and Life magazine covers from the 1930s. That's how I discovered him again. I had no idea he was Helena Modjeska's relative and an active member of so called secret societies in USA. That's perhaps why some kind of the "hermetic" accents can be sensed in his art.

[julitajuli]

wspanialy wybor ilustracji dziel Bendy! Jego maski sa przepiekne!

[240252]

To - obok Tamary Łempickiej czy Alicji Halickiej - kolejny kompletnie przez swych rodaków nieznany polski artysta. Benda jest znany w świecie i mnóstwo zrobił dla rozwoju teatralnej sztuki dekoracyjnej i ilustracji okładkowych w USA. Sami nie wiemy co mamy i nie umiemy u siebie tego cenić, co w nas doceniają inni. To bardzo smutna konstatacja i zarazem wytłumaczenie wielu naszych idiotycznych kompleksów i niewybaczalnych klęsk.

[julitajuli]

Grzegorzu, masz caklowicie racje. Nic ujac, nic dodac.

[Gadomska]

Very nice nostalgic song with the inreresting art art decor/art nouveau style (?) unkown to me

[240252]

Thank you! His art, indeed, can be located just in the crossing point of a few styles: the belle epoque, just fading away in the 1900-10, the modernism and the approaching art deco. Also - a lot of oriental motifs, that were so popular in the early 1920s

[abendstunde49]

The quiet beauty of the paintings and the singing complement each other well. How could I have missed seeing the work of Benda before this? Wonderful!

[240252]

Thank you for your kind comment! Don't accuse yourself for having missed Benda's name. He was Polish,but besides a handful of specialists, he remains completely unknown in his home country.