How To Use Poulenc In A Sentence
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I attended with some positive anticipation, because the Poulenc Concerto, along with the Camille Saint-Sa'ns Symphony No. 3 avec orgue (with organ), have always seemed highly imaginative examples of gifted composers managing to craft beautiful and meaningful, even reflective statements for the mighty and potentially overpowering instrument.
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In formal structure, Mortal Thoughts blends two rich but infrequently employed musical traditions: the chamber operas of Benjamin Britten and his musical descendants (characterized by the use of small orchestral forces) and the experimental, edgy opera monodramas of composers like Schoenberg, (Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand) and Poulenc (La voix humaine).
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The task of composing a unified ‘Dies irae’ made Poulenc shy from a full requiem.
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The prelude to Scene 2 meanwhile shows Poulenc's play with brass and woodwinds in give and take, while puckishly plucked strings and harp play with each other in the background.
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At the Poulencs our orange juice came in cut glass tumblers, and there were sugared almonds and fondants on paper doilies.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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Poulenc ends his opera with a grand chorus, which alternates between a sultry waltz and a kick of satyr's heels, a hymn to ‘make babies!’
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Troubled by his own nascent Catholicism as well as the state of war-torn Europe, Francis Poulenc wrote his choral masterpiece, Figure humaine, in 1943, calling the cantata both a "sacred duty" and a patriotic gesture to France.
Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works
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Mr. JESSOP: Poulenc knew how to write a melody and it came out of the style of Faure, of Debussey, of Reval ...
High School Choirs Perform at Carnegie Hall
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Yet many people love Poulenc precisely because of the piquancy and wit with which he re-interprets the music of previous generations - ancienne cuisine with a nouvelle twist.
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Poulenc composed essentially by improvising at the piano.
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We're used to pieces ending with a predictable plugged-in cadential module; Poulenc plugs in a module, but it's not the predicted one, and our musical expectations are yanked in two directions at once.
Les anges musiciens
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At the Poulencs our orange juice came in cut glass tumblers, and there were sugared almonds and fondants on paper doilies.
FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
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And Liszt himself is redeemed as a lieder composer, underrated despite fascinating early efforts by Bernac and Poulenc to popularize his songs.
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Two centenaries, Duke Ellington's and Francis Poulenc's, are getting plenty of attention, in some spectacular spaces.
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Also, the apocalyptic vistas of the requiem mass were foreign to Poulenc's artistic temperament.
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Though the music is harmonious (which has led some listeners to underrate Poulenc's ingenuity), at dramatic moments it is fresh and raw.
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Rounding off an exceptionally well-filled and desirable disc is a handful of Poulenc miniatures, ranging from the vulgarity of his early Valse via the farcical Manes de la Tour Eiffel pieces to the rumbustiously jolly Matelote provencale.
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It also happened that Poulenc turned out one of the greatest melodists of all time, and it seems churlish to complain when he keeps hitting you with ‘A’ material.
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The plant had had a bumpy ride since Cellatex was sold off by the chemicals giant Rhne-Poulenc in 1991.
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Temkey's commanding vocal declamation and warm, high lying, distinctively French baritonal sound recall Francis Poulenc's collaborator and frequent interpreter Pierre Bernac.
