Visit any aged care facility and you’ll find a tall stack of Andre Rieu DVDs in the TV room. This Dutch fiddler has made untold millions with a performance style perfect for those who are being kept alive by onerous drug schedules, intermittently conscious, indifferent to the present and confused about the facts of the past… I read an interview with Rieu which illustrated just what a diabolic genius he is: he boasted of once owning a pizza joint whose most expensive offering was the Pizza Paganini… a regular pizza but with Rieu emerging from the kitchen to serenade the wealthy diner with his fiddle… He personally designs dresses for each member of his orchestra, and insists that the horse-drawn carriage which he rides on stage be painted with real gold paint… I received a strong impression that Rieu is an overwhelming force, the kind of person who in another age would not just have killed his enemies but eaten their hearts to absorb their mana.
lyrics
You’ve seen your grandmother’s videos of Andre, the Winter King
Flying through castles of polystyrene
How many aged carers have the night off for once?
How many grandparents will the next year take from us?
She
moves
the veil
and finds her-
self face-to-face with ANDRE
the Hearteater
The stadium shakes,
There’s weeping in the pews—
it’s the fascist massed shuffle of their
comfortable shoes
…the cellists on stage
try to find the right page,
try to play the waltz right
for the 1200th night…
She
moves
the veil
and finds her-
self face-to-face with ANDRE
the Hearteater
It’s Andre, seductive,
his whole life a solo,
eyes fixed on eyes fixed on cataracted eyes;
And the triumph of will that he feels in his thighs—
He’s the KING of the WALTZ
He’s the KING of the WALTZ
The darling of tiny adults
She
moves
the veil
and finds her-
self face-to-face
with the Hearteater
supported by 10 fans who also own “Hearteater (Waltz for Andre)”
unlike any album i have ever heard, non compos mentis has become a favorite album of mine incredibly quickly.
an experience from start to finish i will never forget KENNY CHARLTON!
supported by 6 fans who also own “Hearteater (Waltz for Andre)”
when i cry i like to preheat the oven to 200° so that when i do i can feel the tears evaporate off my face as I cry them
no one understands me but this oven is a warm hug KENNY CHARLTON!
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