{"id":184,"date":"2021-07-08T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2021-07-08T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:16:25","slug":"the-people-united-will-never-be-defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"The people united will never be defeated&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rzewski nous a quitt\u00e9s. J\u2019ai aim\u00e9 ses oeuvres, qui ne se r\u00e9duisent pas \u00e0 la plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre (\u201cThe people united\u2026\u201d), o\u00f9 je trouvais un \u00e9cho lointain des Variations de Bach et de Beethoven. Je l\u2019ai photographi\u00e9 pour un projet de portraits des compositeurs contemporains. Ce projet n\u2019a pas abouti, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 Kaija Saarihao, qui d\u00e9commandait tous nos rendez-vous, et j\u2019ai laiss\u00e9 tomber. Il me reste des clich\u00e9s de Rzewski, d\u2019Henri Pousseur, de Garrett List, de Michel Fourgon, de Philippe Boesmans; des souvenirs et la musique\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Il en va ainsi de la vie. \u201cElle vivra de projets qui ne feront qu\u2019attendre\u201d, chantait Brel dans son dernier disque. Des projets aboutissent. D\u2019autres se modifient. D\u2019autres encore sont abandonn\u00e9s. J\u2019avais fait le projet, insens\u00e9 et irr\u00e9aliste, le pari fou de lire et relire tous les livres de ma biblioth\u00e8que avant le jour o\u00f9 mes yeux ne pourront plus lire, o\u00f9 ma main ne pourra plus \u00e9crire, o\u00f9 mon coeur aura cess\u00e9 de battre\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cic\u00e9ron termine son essai sur la vieillesse en observant que la vie est une pi\u00e8ce de th\u00e9\u00e2tre et qu\u2019il importe qu\u2019elle se termine avant d\u2019inspirer ennui et \u00e9coeurement. Un demi-si\u00e8cle plus tard, Auguste (qui n\u2019\u00e9tait pas innocent de la fin de Cic\u00e9ron), sur son lit de mort, y fait \u00e9cho. S\u2019adressant \u00e0 Livie, \u00e0 Tib\u00e8re, aux \u201cfamiliers\u201d, il leur demande : \u201cLa pi\u00e8ce vous a-t\u2019elle plu ?\u201d. Je les imagine, les sycophantes, bredouillant un oui contrit. Et Auguste : \u201cPlaudite ! Qu\u2019attendez-vous pour applaudir !\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/21-Rzewski.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rzewski, ca 2000, Hasselblad 503 CW, Zeiss Sonnar 4\/180, Ilford Delta 400 \u00a9 Luc Mary-Rabine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rzewski nous a quitt\u00e9s. J\u2019ai aim\u00e9 ses oeuvres, qui ne se r\u00e9duisent pas \u00e0 la plus c\u00e9l\u00e8bre (\u201cThe people united\u2026\u201d), o\u00f9 je trouvais un \u00e9cho lointain des Variations de Bach et de Beethoven. Je l\u2019ai photographi\u00e9 pour un projet de portraits des compositeurs contemporains. Ce projet n\u2019a pas abouti, gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 Kaija Saarihao, qui &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;The people united will never be defeated&#8230;&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lucmaryrabine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}