Satie wrote two entr'actes titled 'Chez un bistrot' and 'Un salon'. The first of these uses an as yet unidentified French popular song (which has some similarities with the student song 'Gaudeamus igitur'), and the second parodies first Mignon's romance "Connais-tu le pays, où fleurit l'orangier ?" from Act 1 of Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon (1866), and then Saint-Saëns's celebrated Danse macabre of 1874.

But the more Satie exhorted the audience to walk about and ignore his background music, the more they listened to its continuous repetitions. So, in a sense, the experiment was a failure, though in it lay the seeds of multiple sound-sources and muzak.

This music remained unknown for a long time as the manuscript was conserved the collection of Satie's heir, Joseph Lafosse-Satie (descendant of his sister, Olga).

source: Robert Orledge

direction: Yutaka Sado

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