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DIED. Pierre Bernac, 80, French baritone who performed with the late composer-pianist Francis Poulenc for 25 years; of heart disease; in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France. Though best known for his interpretations of Poulenc art songs and other French vocal music, Bernac was also at home in the German and English repertory. Bernac, praised more for his technique and interpretative grace than for his voice, stopped performing in 1960 and concentrated on training singers in Europe and America...
Robert J. Gartside, Jr. '50, Assistant Conductor of the Glee Club, has been awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship for the study of Music. He will study voice in Paris, under Pierre Bernac...
...many visiting composers, who felt just as sure of themselves with a baton as with a pen, Poulenc wouldn't be caught dead on a podium. Says he, throwing up his hands: "I have no tempo." Instead, Manhattan audiences saw him first as piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious choral works, have won Poulenc his share of fame. This week, a Carnegie Hall audience would hear him, too, as soloist with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in his melodic Concert Champêtre for piano...
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