Word: poulence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOWELL HOUSE OPERA. Francis Poulenc's The Breasts of Tiresias, one of the funniest operas ever written. Caldwell Titcomb '47 calls it Tessie's Tits. And a concert version of Purcell's Indian Queen. Both Boston premieres...
BURDEN HALL. (B-School). Chorus Pro Musica. Vocal ensembles by Poulenc, Debussy, Couperin, Milhaud. Tickets: $2. March...
...other groups aren't as established. The Lowell House Opera Society, Harvard's only entry now that its Leverett House rival seems to have vanished, is doing a double bill of Purcell's Indian Queen and Poulenc's Breasts of Tiresias, a funny, approachable and lyrical work with an Apollinaire-libretto involving a couple of sex changes and a lot of non sequiturs...
UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. The Christmas Story, by Heinrich Shutz, and Christmas Motets, by Francis Poulenc, presented by Musica Sacra under the direction of Yuko Hayashi...
Gerald Moshell, to no one's surprise managed to secure nearly all of Harvard's best student string players. Their work in the difficult Poulenc piece was very solid: the occasional lapse in pitch during the high accompaniment passages was understandable. Poulenc juxtaposes short lyrical passages with pounding tuttis. The violius were especially sensitive to their phrasing in the gentler moments: but their lead was not followed by Johnson. Nonetheless, the performance was tremendously exciting--especially at the recapitulation of the opening chords that closes the work. The Poulenc deserves to be heard more often. Like the Saint-Saens Third...