The movie "San Francisco" is considered the first real Disaster Movie out of Hollywood. The film premiered in 1936, exactly 30 years after the San Francisco earthquake, one of the most severe and best known natural disasters of the 20. Century. Surprisingly, for 90...
Since 2008 artist and bell-maker Marcus Vergette has been developing the multi-site installation series Time and Tide Bells in various coastal spots across the UK. The installations consist of two bells, one upside down on top of the other, set up in tidal zones so...
A common theme in Northern European flood myths are the church bells of submerged cities. This motive can be found all along the ccoasts of Brittany, Wales, England, Germany and Poland. The popular folk song "Bells of Aberdovey" relates to the legend of the sunken...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnDxZsxHzdw "Le roi d'Ys" is an opera by French composer Édouard Lalo (1823 – 1892), to a libretto by Édouard Blau, based on the old Breton legend of the drowned city of Ys (assumed geographical location).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughJeJ4LJD0 "Noye's Fludde" is an opera by british composer Britten from 1958 based on the Noah myth. It premiered in England just 5 years after the great North Sea Flood of 1953. UK; 20. Century; Christian; Music, Opera; Noah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVMGwPDP-Yk Prelude for solo piano written by the French composer Claude Debussy, published in 1910. To quote wikipedia: "This piece is based on an ancient Breton myth in which a cathedral, submerged underwater off the coast of the...
A bretonic folksong about the sinking of the City Ys on the Atlantic Coast of Brittany. Original LyricsFrench Translation