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...program with the singers will be two-piano pieces by Darius Milhaud and Theodore Chanler and the four-hand sonata by Hindesmith, while the group will conclude the concert with the first American presentation of the cantata "Secheresses" by Francis Poulenc...
...harpsichord jangles like a regiment of mice scurrying through a pile of coins. But its connoisseurs find in the harpsichord rarefied and rustling harmonies, comparable to a choir of flutes and mandolins. When Landowska began, nobody was writing harpsichord music; it was a dead art. Composers like Francis Poulenc (her student for a year) and the late Manuel De Falla wrote harpsichord music for her. Said she: "It was a battle, you have no idea what a battle it was, to impose the harpsichord upon the musical world. When I started before 1900, the tradition...
Last week she sang song cycles by two great French song writers, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, and two songs by a 28-year-old Austrian, Gottfried von Einem, five by Paul Bowles and several by such unknown Americans as Everett B. Helm, Bela Wilda and Ned Rorem. Her voice was limited in range and occasionally harsh in the high notes, but as always, her interpretations were intelligent and distinguished by restraint...
Composer Francis Poulenc, whose frothy, nose-thumbing ballet and cinema music had been the rage of the prewar Left Bank, was last week the most popular musician in Paris. His latest ballet score, Les Animaux Modeles (commissioned by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo), had been prevented from delivery by the German occupation. But when the German authorities offered to produce it at the Paris Opera, Poulenc refused coldly, maintained an unimpeachable record of resistance...
...most of Shostakovich's later music, there are traces of Beethoven, Berlioz, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mahler, moderns like Poulenc and Busoni. The Seventh Symphony has been described by those who have already heard it as a modern Russian version of Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. It has also been called a sound-track for a psychological documentary film on Russia today...