Word: couperin
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...play has only three fairly short acts, for it was originally interspersed with divertissements of song and dance as part of a festival celebrating the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1668. (This year was a significant one for French culture, since it saw also the birth of Couperin and the publication of the fables of La Fontaine; and it gave us Les Plaideurs of Racine, who, then at odds with Moliere, made fun of him by naming one of the judges in his play George Dandin...
...frequently, I should rub the bloom off the musical imagination." In the mid-1930s, Kreisler astonished the musical world-and embarrassed critics-by confessing that for years he had been palming off a whole series of his own compositions as the works of such classical composers as Vivaldi, Martini, Couperin, Dittersdorf, Pugnani. Explained Kreisler: "I found it inexpedient and tactless to repeat my name endlessly in the programs...
...guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor. Then there were Schumann's fluid Adagio and Allegro and five Concert Pieces by Couperin. As an encore, Casals played his own arrangement-virtually his theme song-of the Catalan melody, Chant of the Birds...
...EVENING CONCERT--MendelssohnRuy Blas Overture; Ives Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano; Couperin-L'Apotehose de Luly; Dvorak-Trio in g, opus 26; Mozart-Symphony...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Bach-Italian Concerto; Prokoviev-Symphony No. 7; Rossini-Stabat Mater; Mozart-Quartet No. 21, K 575; Ravel-Le Tombeau de Couperin; Torelli-Concerto Grosso Opus 8, No. 3; Beethoven Sonata No. 1 for Cello...