My friend Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, a cat lover like myself, sent me this video of Henri, a very French kitty. The music—most appropriate for this video– is by Erik Satie, who left the Paris Conservatory ...

Alistair McGowan recording The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie on location in Paris Alistair McGowan visiting Erik Satie's old haunts for The Unsent Letters of Erik Satie 3/7 ...

British actor Alistair McGowan travels to Paris on the trail of his musical hero, the visionary Erik Satie—now most well-known as the composer of the Gymnopedies. Satie was famously eccentric—he lived ...

No one came closer to the early 20th-century avant-garde ideal that an artist’s creations and his life should be inseparable than did composer Erik Satie. A Paris Conservatory dropout who supported ...

Friday, March 17, marks the 150th birthday of José Maria Vicente Ferrer, Francisco de Paola, Patricio Manuel Contamine, better known to his friends — and history — as Patrice Contamine de Latour, a ...

If you forgot to celebrate Erik Satie’s 150th birthday on May 17, he forgives you. Really, he does. What’s that, you speak of a legacy worth honoring? A sesquicentenary? One imagines the urbane French ...

You may not be familiar with French composer Erik Satie’s name, but you almost certainly know at least one of his pieces: the spare, tinkling “Gymnopédie No. 1” that has been featured on numerous ...