Word: dormir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High point of the concert were the five Spanish songs by anonymous sixteenth-century composers. The two for Christmas, "No la devemos dormir" for its wonderful tenderness and "Rin, rin, chin" for its powerful devotion, provided an exciting contrast in religious feeling. But the delicate subtlety of this group were not sufficient preparation for the Hindemith and Copland with which the program closed. Although they fitted in far better than would any Classical or Romantic music, several of the Hindemith songs were spent adjusting the audience to modern dissonance and counterpoint. In the last selection, Copland's pictorial "Lark," Paul...
...copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
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