{"id":438,"date":"2007-09-29T02:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=438"},"modified":"2007-09-29T02:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T10:20:00","slug":"nicole-peyrafitte-celebrates-augustus-saint-gaudens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/nicole-peyrafitte-celebrates-augustus-saint-gaudens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Peyrafitte celebrates Augustus Saint Gaudens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6I2i7lhIfaw\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6I2i7lhIfaw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 8 August this summer Nicole Peyrafitte staged a performance commissioned as part of the celebrations of the American sculpture Augustus Saint Gaudens\u2019 100th death year. This happened in the small town of Aspet in the Comminges region of the Pyrenees, the place where Saint Gaudens\u2019 father was born. In the extract above, you can see her \u201csaupiquet transcontinental\u201d  \u2013 a  stew of (adzuki)beans, vegetables, ham & maple syrup which NP will feed to the 200-strong audience at the end of the show \u2013  simmering on stage-left between son Miles Joris-Peyrafitte in charge of electronics and NP singing, while to her right is baryton Jean Ribet, a long-time resident of Aspet, and Jerome Pizzato on guitar. The extract on video here is a piece called \u201cNo Name\u201d \u2013 music & lyrics by NP \u2013 speaking to, singing to, my own favorite Saint Gaudens sculpture, the bronze figure Henry Adams asked him to create for the tomb of his wife (later to be Henry\u2019s tomb too) in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington D.C.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 August this summer Nicole Peyrafitte staged a performance commissioned as part of the celebrations of the American sculpture Augustus Saint Gaudens\u2019 100th death year. This happened in the small town of Aspet&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}