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Sviatoslav ("Nini") Stravinsky, pianist son of the composer, plays in Paris. Composer-Pianist Francis Poulenc has toured with a tenor, is preparing a ballet. French orchestras and the Paris opera give regular performances...
...Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
...hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with the string-like impact of a harp, but both of Mr. Grandjany's compositions utilize the two together; and hearing it should be a novel experience. Another bizarre combination of instruments is found in the Poulenc Concerto, where the organ and string-orchestra are supplemented by a set of Kettle Drums. It is impossible to say just why or how, but the union of these two, the organ and Kettle Drums, is a striking and dynamic piece of scoring, the quality of which is spectacular and unique...
This concert will mark also the first American performance of Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto, which had its world premiere in Paris last year. Luckily I know someone who was at that premiere, and what I say now about the concerto is all from him. Evidently it is not only one of Poulenc's best works, getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down...
...months ago, when Hitler's Blitzkrieg rolled into Paris, one lesser, but still active member of "The Six" (Francis Poulenc) was in the French Army, another (Georges Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...