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16-649: The Guild was run by a Council consisting of: However, in practice most of the work was done by Edgar and Louise Varèse and Salzedo. However following the First season Claire Raphael Reis was appointed executive secretary of the guild. Once in post she was able to relocate the second season to the Broadway based Klaw Theatre , which had a capacity of 805. After hosting the American premiere of Arnold Schoenberg 's Pierrot Lunaire on 4 February 1923, she proposed staging

32-686: A defense of the work titled "Buddha of the Bathroom" in issue 2 of The Blind Man . Her address also appears on the label of Fountain as seen in the Alfred Stieglitz photograph of the work and her phone number was given as an alternative to Duchamp's as press contact. As such, she is a likely candidate for the "female friend" Duchamp mentions in a letter dated 11 April 1917 to his sister Suzanne : "Une de mes amies sous un pseudonyme masculin, Richard Mutt, avait envoyé une pissotière en porcelaine comme sculpture" ("One of my female friends under

48-411: A masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture."). Varèse translated poetry and other works by Charles Baudelaire , Julien Gracq , Saint-John Perse , Marcel Proust , Arthur Rimbaud , Georges Simenon , and Stendhal . Her translations of the work of Arthur Rimbaud for James Laughlin 's New Directions imprint were particularly influential. In 1956, she translated

64-567: A passionate individualist and ferociously anti- Vichy . In 1950, he published a fierce attack on contemporary literary culture and literary prizes in the review Empédocle titled La Littérature à l'estomac . When he won the Prix Goncourt for The Opposing Shore ( Le Rivage des Syrtes ) the following year, he remained consistent with his criticism and refused the prize. Gracq taught history and geography in secondary school (high school) until he retired in 1970. In 1979, he wrote

80-673: A repeat performance, contrary to a rule of the ICG emanating from Edgard Varèse that aside from an immediate encore, no musical piece should be scheduled by the ICG twice. Later that year she motivated several members to secede from the ICG to found the League of Composers . The ICG then relocated to the broadway based Vanderbilt Theatre for the third season and to the Aeolian Hall for the last three seasons. The ICG organised six seasons, each consisting of three concerts each. The first season

96-752: Is dedicated to that surrealist writer, to whom he devoted a whole book in 1948. In 1936, he joined the French Communist Party but quit the party in 1939 after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed. During the Second World War, he was a prisoner of war in Silesia with other officers of the French Army. One of the friendships he formed there was with author and literary critic Armand Hoog, who later described Gracq as

112-494: The Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1973, Varèse wrote an essay titled "Marcel Duchamp at Play". Her first husband was poet and literary editor Allen Norton, the couple had a son, Michael in 1912, separated in 1916, and divorced in 1920. Louise also had a granddaughter, Sylvia Calderwood. In 1922 she married composer Edgard Varèse ; they remained together until his death in 1965. Varèse died on July 1, 1989, at

128-471: The Aeolian Hall. This article about a music organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Louise Var%C3%A8se Louise Varèse ( French pronunciation: [lwiz vaʁɛz] ; née   McCutcheon ; 20 November 1890 – 1 July 1989), also credited as Louise Norton or Louise Norton-Varèse , was an American writer, editor, and translator of French literature who

144-591: The age of 98 in Eugene, Oregon . Julien Gracq Julien Gracq ( French: [gʁak] ; 27 July 1910 – 22 December 2007; born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil , in the French département of Maine-et-Loire ) was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their dreamlike abstraction, elegant style and refined vocabulary. He

160-477: The banks of the river Loire . On 22 December 2007, a couple of days after suffering a dizzy spell, he died at the age of 97 in a hospital in Angers . The Opposing Shore ( Le Rivage des Syrtes , 1951) is Julien Gracq's most famous novel. A novel of waiting, it is set in an old fortress close to a sea which defines the ancestral border between the stagnant principality of Orsenna and the territory of its archenemy,

176-550: The foreword to a re-edition of the Journal de l'analogiste (1954) by Suzanne Lilar , a work he called a "sumptuous initiation to poetry" ( "une initiation somptueuse à la poésie" ). In 1989, Gracq's work was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade . He remained distant from major literary events and faithful to his first publisher, José Corti . Gracq lived a quiet life in his native town of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, on

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192-475: The pseudonym " Dame Rogue". Under this pseudonym, Varèse wrote a fashion column called "Philosophic Fashions". She was also a contributor to the New York Dada magazine The Blind Man . Varèse (then Norton) met Marcel Duchamp in 1915 and became close friends. She was involved in the 1917 Society of Independent Artists submission of a urinal under the name R.Mutt known as Fountain . She wrote

208-491: The section "The Great Improvisation" from Adam Mickiewicz 's poetic drama Dziady . She played an important role in the International Composers' Guild , and included material about this organisation in her book Varèse; a looking-glass diary (1972). In 1972, she wrote a biography of her late second husband, Edgard Varèse, titled: Varèse: A Looking-Glass Diary . For the exhibition Marcel Duchamp at

224-652: Was close to the surrealist movement , in particular its leader André Breton . Gracq first studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV , where he earned his baccalauréat . He then entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1930, later studying at the École libre des sciences politiques (Sciences Po.), both schools of the University of Paris at the time. In 1932, he read André Breton 's Nadja , which deeply influenced him. His first novel, The Castle of Argol ,

240-483: Was involved with New York Dadaism . Varèse was born Louise McCutcheon in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, to John Lindsay McCutcheon and Mary Louise Taylor. She attended Smith College (class of 1912), but left in the fall of 1911 to marry Allen Norton . Varèse founded and edited the modernist magazine Rogue (a play off of Vogue ) with her then-husband, Allen Norton, from 1915 to 1916. She sometimes wrote under

256-498: Was performed at the off-Broadway Greenwich Village Theatre , between 19 February and 23 April 1922. The second season was performed at the Broadway based Klaw Theatre , and opened on 17 December 1922. The third season was performed at the Vanderbilt Theatre . The fourth season was performed at the Aeolian Hall . The fifth season was also performed at the Aeolian Hall. The sixth and final season continued at

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