Alexander Blok’s Poetic Inspiration in Art and Music
This song and painting was inspired by Alexander Blok’s poem “Night, Street, Lamppost, Drugstore…” (excerpt from the “Dances of Death” cycle): “Night, street, lamppost, drugstore, Meaningless and dim light. Live another quarter of a century— Everything will be like this. There is no escape. Die—you’ll start over again. And everything will repeat itself, as before: …