![]() ![]() Two major musical moments interrupt the film’s relative silence. A queer love story, Portrait (which is now streaming on Hulu) is essentially devoid of music, placing an extra emphasis on the sounds of the world Sciamma creates: the strokes of a paintbrush, windswept sea cliffs, the silence of longing glances between two lovers. They are the Sistine Chapel the Mona Lisa.Days before the pandemic closed movie theaters across the country, The Belcourt featured Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of A Lady on Fire, a historical drama set on an isolated French island during the 18th century. But why The Four Seasons? Well firstly it’s a piece of music written by a brilliant composer – Antonia Vivaldi.” A 1 minute audio clip (mp3) of birds singing. The Four Seasons are famous “because they are a delight to the ear”, explains Betsy Schwarm. ![]() “Even more notable is the fact that they have stories to tell. In providing specific plot content for instrumental music, Vivaldi was generations ahead of his time.” At the time of their publication in Amsterdam in 1725, they were accompanied by poems describing exactly what feature of that season Vivaldi intended to capture in musical terms. “If one were to read the poems simultaneously to hearing the music, one would find the poetic scenes synchronizing nicely with the musical imagery. We are told that the birds welcome spring with happy song, and here they are doing exactly that. Not only is there musical thunder and lightning, there are also more birds, wet, frightened, and unhappy.”Īs Michael Francis explains: “There’s a tremendous virtuosity to it.” But above all these things – “the wonderful Soon, however, a thunderstorm breaks out. How do we all as a human race connect to the elemental forces around us? The spring and the autumn are much lighter more gentle.
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