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French Composer Francis Poulenc has a favorite religious scene: the painting by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in one corner of which a small rabbit crouches unaware of the tragedy being unfolded on the Mount of Olives behind him. It is the kind of light but not irreverent touch that Roman Catholic Poulenc himself strives for in many of his religious works. Last week the Boston Symphony introduced U.S. audiences to the latest and perhaps most contrast-filled of Poulenc's compositions-his Gloria, in which he says he tried "to write a joyous hymn to the glory...
...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
Soprano Farrell's first venture into popular recording occurs in a Columbia album titled I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues!-issued simultaneously with two other Farrell albums, a collection of Puccini arias and a recital featuring Schubert, Schumann, Debussy and Poulenc. Soprano Farrell was a jazz fan long before she became a serious singer-back in the days when she was getting vocal encouragement from her parents, who once toured the nation as "The Singing O'Farrells." In the '40s she used to sing the blues occasionally on radio shows...
...Stagliano; Paul Ulanowsky, piano; Boston). An ear-opener for listeners to whom the French horn is little more than an operatic halloo. The composers are Russian and French, most of them dyed-in-the-brass romantics: Gliere, Cui, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Dukas, Faure. The most interesting work is Francis Poulenc's sparsely angular, twelve-tone Elegie written in tribute to Britain's late, great hornist, Dennis Brain. The Boston Symphony's Stagliano summons a rich, clear and remarkably controlled sound...
...Composers Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Vittorio Rieti and Pianist Marcelle Meyer...