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Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements perpétu... Read more
Les Six
Les Six , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant impressionism of French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the overwrought romanticism of Germans such as Richard Wagner and Richar... Read more
nocturne
nocturne [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. Others who have written nocturnes include Gabriel Fauré and ... Read more
Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska , 1879-1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. She taught piano (1900-1912) at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, and harpsichord (1912-19) at the Berlin Hochschule. She established her École de Musique ancienne in Paris in 1925. In 1940, s... Read more
Erik Satie
Erik Satie , 1866-1925, French composer, studied at the Paris Conservatory; pupil of Vincent D'Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schola Cantorum. He early realized that the romantic Wagnerian style was incompatible with the expression of French sensibility, and he developed a restrained, abstract, and ... Read more
song
song relatively brief, simple vocal composition, usually a setting of a poetic text, often strophic, for accompanied solo voice . The song literature of Western music embodies two broad classifications— folk song and art song. Apart from the recently discovered cuneiform tablet contain... Read more
kinetic art
kinetic art term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp , Naum Gabo , and Alexander Calder . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Mo... Read more
Jean Gaspard Deburau
Jean Gaspard Deburau , 1796-1846, French pantomime performer, whose original name was Jan Kaspar Dvorjak, b. Bohemia. He became famous for his introduction of the pantomime character Pierrot at the Théâtre des Funambules. With delicate charm and pathos, he captured the essence of the ... Read more
Dada
Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian Tristan Tzara . Dada attacked conventional standar... Read more
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault , 1910-94, French actor and director. A pupil of Charles Dullin, he joined the Comédie Française in 1940. After World War II he organized his own company at the Théâtre Marigny with his wife, actress Madeleine Renaud. Barrault's precise, imaginative phy... Read more

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POULENC TRIO CONCERT
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/2/2007; 700+ words ; ...concert of Handel, Rossini, Poulenc, Previn and Piazzolla as part...the Stockwell Seivert Law Firm. Poulenc Trio brings together three uniquely...Named for the French composer Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, the Trio is committed to expanding...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/29/1994; 675 words ; ...actor, 1964; Jimmy (James Francis) Durante, comedian, 1980...Savage Landor, author, 1775; Francis Herbert Bradley, philosopher...Wright, aviation pioneer, 1948; Francis-Jean-Marcel Poulenc, composer and pianist, 1963...
Anniversaries:
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/7/1995; 398 words ; TODAY: Births: St Bernadette of Lourdes (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844; Francis-Jean Marcel Poulenc, composer, 1899. Deaths: Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, 1536; Nicholas Hillyarde, first English miniaturist...
Make It New: Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 12/19/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...And why devote pages to determining that Wagner is not a modernist, then all but ignore Benjamin Britten, Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, and Sergei Prokofiev--after having described them as "the first modernist musicians who come to mind...
Poet of the Cinema.(Jean Cocteau)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...salons immortalized by Marcel Proust, who was...relationship with Jean Desbordes. (The...very moving opera by Francis Poulenc, which, to the...for advancement, Jean Marais. He was initially...calling, gay writer Jean Genet, who had a...
LISTEN TO JOYFUL SOUND OF SEASONAL MUSIC.(RHYTHM)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 3/29/2007; 700+ words ; ...the 20th-century composer Francis Poulenc. (The UW Choral Union, by the way, will perform Poulenc's Gloria and Verdi's Four...the 20th century, including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Marcel Moyse and Geoffrey Gilbert...
TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD; IN JUST A DECADE PRESIDING OVER HIS ATELIER, CHRISTIAN DIOR REVOLUTIONIZED FASHION - AND THE MODERN FASHION INDUSTRY - COMPLETELY.(Company overview)
Magazine article from: WWD; 2/27/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...partnership with French textile mogul Marcel Boussac. With his business...social circle included artists Jean Cocteau, Sir Francis Rose and Christian Berard, and composers Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc. He was known for his impeccable...
The Century of Invention: Piano Music of the 20th Century
Magazine article from: The American Music Teacher; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Lutoslawski, Bohuslav Martinu, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Eric Satic, Arnold Schoenberg and Joaquin...significant are Richard Rodney Bennett, Jean Francais, Gyorgy Ligeti, Ernst Pepping, Marcel Poor, Joaquin Rodrigo, Joseph Schwantner...
Dame Gillian Weir plays with sensitivity, zest
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/25/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...she displayed in one of Marcel Dupre's "Variations...unending sequences. Jean Francaix's "Suite...parallel to the nuns in Francis Poulenc's opera, "The Dialogues...Ceremonique," in which Poulenc seems to be steering...
Andre Gide's "new self".(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...biggest mistakes was his rejection of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps...Ivry, the author of biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel...homosexuality in his writings--Jean Genet once referred to him as "the...