Our spectacular Madeira geranium is almost in full flush in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers [click to embiggen]
Having spotted that not one, but two great composers were born on this date, this gives me another perfect excuse to inject some class into this blog...
...with a twist, inevitably.
Whoever would have come up with the idea of putting Gabriel Fauré [born 12th May 1845] and David Guetta together? This lot did...
[I didn't even recognise the David Guetta song - it's here, fyi]
Even weirder, whoever would have thought this piece of music-as-artform that was a surprise hit back in 1981 was based upon a work by Jules Massenet [born 12th May 1842]..?
Indeed, Miss Anderson even subtitled the record "for Massenet". According to a column by Olivia Giovetti for Operavore:
"The work, a breakdown of Massenet’s "Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père" from Le Cid, channels Massenet’s text through a vocoder, layering in several other elements that obscure the source material but amplify its heart..."
Here's the original - see what you think. Apart from the fact that her lyrics "O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad." are an evident pastiche of the song's title, I can't hear it, myself!
I wonder what either composer would have thought...