Katherine Mansfield (Geboortenaam Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp; Wellington, 14 oktober 1888 – Fontainebleau, 9 januari 1923) was een Engels schrijfster van vooral korte verhalen, van Nieuw-Zeelandse herkomst. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield at Gurdjieff´s Institute 1922

 

 

Does being a member of a Gurdjieff group create fragmentation? | J. Krishnamurti

 

en ik kwam hier…

Gurdjieff-Movements – Konya Performance, 2013

 

https://www.gurdjieff.org/pupils.htm   Hier vind je leerlingen met een zekere bekende naam.

Born on October 20, 1920, in the sacred city of Kairouan, Tunisia, Solange spent the first part of her life in the Mediterranean region, notably Marseille, where at the age of fifteen she won first prize in piano at the Conservatory of Music. This achievement confirmed at an early age her extraordinary sense of rhythm, which she went on to embody in a unique way in the Movements. This talent, alongside a difficult childhood and adolescence, proved to be her preparation for her meeting with G. I. Gurdjieff, a meeting that decided the course of her life.

In 1941, in Paris, she joined a preparatory group for the study of the ideas and Movements, led by Madame de Salzmann.

There is not work and life, there is only Life.
Feel that I live, feel that I am.
Sense that I live, sense that I am.
Think that I live, think that I am.
At the same time, the same moment

 

 

On homosexuality | J. Krishnamurti

 

 

 

Gurdjieff and the Prieuré (1922–1927)

Ethel Merston

t was late summer of 1922 when I went over to Paris to ask Gurdjieff to take me as a pupil, more exactly, as a guinea-pig, for that was really what we were for him in those days of his learning to know the western mentality. I remember sitting with him on a bench on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, he absolutely silent and I, realizing that I was being tested, equally silent. I felt a tense atmosphere, perhaps he was weighing whether to take me or not. At the end of half an hour or so, he rose and said, “Come,” and we went to his flat for lunch.

He accepted me and sent me down at once to the Prieuré near Avon in the Forest of Fontainebleau. He had rented the property, a large one including a stretch of forest… The property had originally been a monastic Priory of which only a few stones were left in the grounds. The Chateau had been built in Louis the XV’s time and there every Sunday Mme. de Maintenon went to Mass. It ceased to be a monastery at the time of the French Revolution but kept its name. When I went down there, the Chateau was still occupied by tenants and the six of us there: Mme. Ostrowski (Gurdjieff’s wife), Mme. Ouspensky, another Russian woman, an Armenian woman, a Mr. Barker, and myself all lived in the little gardener’s cottage on the grounds.

Mr. Gurdjieff would come down on Sundays bringing various visitors, only one of whom I remember for the prank played on her credulity. This was Lady Rothermere who, in the early days when Ouspensky was in London, had the group meetings in her house. That Sunday of her visit, we had fish for lunch grilled over the wood fire in the dining room and served while Mr. Gurdjieff expiated to her on the wonders of this fish, a special trout caught in our own pond stocked with them. She swallowed it, trout and all, but so far as I was concerned, I knew a good herring when I tasted one. That was my first awakener to Mr. Gurdjieff’s practical method of teaching.

The first day that Mr. Gurdjieff came down from Paris, he asked me what work I would like to do, housework or gardens? He did not need to ask twice or wait an hour for the answer. I hate housework and adore gardening. So, he made me head of the gardens…

La musica di Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff – Thomas De Hartmann.

Pianisti Michele Fedrigotti, Danilo Lorenzini, Michèle Thomasson. I brani sono stati registrati durante il concerto del 29 gennaio 2001 presso il Teatro della Cometa a Roma. Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff – Thomas De Hartmann Piano Music. Michele Fedrigotti, Danilo Lorenzini and Michèle Thomasson pianists. The songs were recorded during the concert on January 29, 2001 – Teatro della Cometa in Rome.

 

 

 

 

 

Stravinsky Petrouchka (Original Version) Sir Eugene Goos sens, The London Symphony Orchestra

We all know there are a plenty of very good “Petrushka” renditions around. But I want to bring a great version to mind which often is unfortunately and inexplicably overlooked! Sir Eugene Goossens fantastic recording with the London Symphony! The performance is breathtaking gripping and the sound engineer did a splendid job! I promise you will not be disappointed..