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	In Praise of Poulenc
		But Poulenc wrote more than just one or two pieces which deserve to be in everyone's CD collection, unlike Pachelbel, Humperdinck, Adam, Alfvén and Offenbach, for example.
		FLAXMAN: The Concerto for Piano by Francis Poulenc.
		POULENC: "I was born in Paris on 7 January 1899 I studied piano under Viñes and composition almost solely through books because I was fearful of being influenced by a teacher.
	compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/18Poulenc.html (1269 words)

	Francis Poulenc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poulenc was profundly affected later in life by the death of friends.
		Francis Poulenc died in Paris on January 30, 1963 and was interred in Cimetière Père Lachaise, Paris.
		Poulenc's final opera was a one-act tragedy by Jean Cocteau entitled La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) that was premiered at the Paris Opéra Comique on February 6, 1959.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francois_Poulenc (1237 words)

	francois poulenc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Influenced by Igor Stravinsky as well as Maurice Chevalier and the French vaudeville, after the War, Poulenc joined a circle of young composers gathered around Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau whose followers opposed Impressionism, advocating instead simplicity and clarity and espousing a particularly flippant form of anti-Romanticism.
		An outstanding pianist, the keyboard dominated much of his early compositions but his friendships with the leading avant-garde poets of Montparnasse such as Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Eluard also saw him write dozens of songs, many of which were set to their words.
		Poulenc's final opera was a one-act tragedy entitled La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) that was premiered at the Paris Opéra-Comique on February 6, 1959.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Francois_Poulenc.html (597 words)

	Francis Poulenc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Influenced by Igor Stravinsky as well as Maurice Chevalier and the French vaudeville after the War Poulenc joined a of young composers gathered around Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau whose followers opposed Impressionism advocating instead simplicity and clarity and a particularly flippant form of anti- Romanticism.
		Poulenc's opera was a one-act tragedy entitled La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) that was premiered the Paris Opéra-Comique on February 6 1959.
		A much needed book, as there is no new biography of Poulenc in English or for that matter in French since the Henri Hell book of 1958, which was subsequently revised in the late 1970s.
	www.freeglossary.com /Francis_Poulenc (657 words)

	Poulenc, Francis Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Brief summary of life and influences with comments on stage works, orchestral, choral and vocal, chamber, and piano music.
		Poulenc, Francis Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
		Poulenc, Francis Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
	searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_P_Poulenc,_Francis.html (1890 words)

	In Praise of Poulenc
		But Poulenc wrote more than just one or two pieces which deserve to be in everyone's CD collection, unlike Pachelbel, Humperdinck, Adam, Alfvén and Offenbach, for example.
		Poulenc's mastery of these large orchestral forces makes me wish he had written much more symphonic music than he did.
		POULENC: "I was born in Paris on 7 January 1899 I studied piano under Viñes and composition almost solely through books because I was fearful of being influenced by a teacher.
	www.compactdiscoveries.com /CompactDiscoveriesScripts/18Poulenc.html (1269 words)

	Francis Poulenc : Francois Poulenc
		Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a composer was a French composer.
		Poulenc's final opera was a one act tragedy entitled La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) that was premiered at the Paris Opera-Comique on February 6, 1959.
		Francis Poulenc died in Paris on January 30, 1963 and was interred in Cimetiere Pere Lachaise, Paris.
	www.fastload.org /fr/Francois_Poulenc.html (574 words)

	WGUC 90.9 FM \| Essential Poulenc
		Poulenc's music, whether comic or tragic, is engaging, attractive and highly tonal (with an occasional atonal Bronx cheer thrown in for comedic purposes).
		Poulenc was visiting relatives in Bordeaux during World War II who successfully prodded him to play some of his music on their piano.
		Poulenc improvised an accompaniment as he read the story aloud, but soon the children in the neighborhood were there, asking to hear it again.
	www.wguc.org /content/display.asp?id=23 (1468 words)

	Poulenc opera has message in its madness - The Boston Globe
		Poulenc, enemy of all things stuffy and pompous, was the perfect composer to set Apollinaire's outlandish play.
		A stage director admonishes his audience: "Listen, French people, to the lessons of war, and make children, you who hardly ever used to." The same maxim is repeated at the end, by cast and chorus.
		Whether Poulenc or Apollinaire intended this message ironically or earnestly is unclear.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/12/08/poulenc_opera_has_message_in_its_madness (654 words)

	Francis Poulenc - French choral composer
		Poulenc behaved like a sophisticated eccentric (he once chatted up a stupefied Cannes bartender about an ingenious harmonic progression he managed to pull off that morning), and the eccentricity not surprisingly showed up in his music.
		Poulenc's works around this time include the brilliant Rapsodie negre, in which a baritone chants the "Madagascan" word "Ho-no-lu-lu" over and over, the surrealist opera Les Mamelles de Tirésias, a classic ballet for Diaghilev, Les Biches, about flirtatious girls, and the Concert champêtre for harpsichord.
		Poulenc is perhaps primarily regarded as a composer of vocal works: solo songs, choir music, oratories and operas, music that he set to lyrics of a high literary quality.
	www.singers.com /composers/francispoulenc.html (1566 words)

	Song With Your Supper
		The fireplaceswere lit and the crystal chandeliers sparkled, reflecting theexquisite appointments in the various small dining rooms.
		Thestage was set for Deux Cheminees' and The Philadelphia Singers'dinner-musicale a few weeks back, celebrating the centennial birthdayof François Poulenc.
		In the adjoining townhouses designedby Frank Furness that comprise Deux Cheminees, renowned chef FritzBlank created a Belle Epoque event, featuring carefully researcheddishes that were in keeping with the life and times of Poulenc.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/030499/food.sidedish.shtml (238 words)

	pedantic nuthatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Poulenc's 1957 opera, based on historical events, is given an effective, polished interpretation by Opera International.
		The lack of emotionally charged music leaves us less than connected with the nuns and their fate, except perhaps in the final scene in which, inexorably one by one, they mount the platform of the guillotine.
		As is usually the case with opera, Poulenc compresses and elides his source material (a film script/play by Georges Bernanos and a novella by Gertrude von le Fort) to the extent that the Carmelites' motivations are not always clear.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /nouveau/blog/categories/reviews/2004/08/02.html (338 words)

	CRIES FROM THE SCAFFOLD : Poulenc's 'Carmelites' Commonweal - Find Articles
		Poulenc (1899-1963) was heir to a fortune from the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc.
		In 1954, three years before Poulenc's opera was staged, a writer's arbitration tribunal in Paris ruled that the Bernanos family must pay damages to Lavery and include his name in all future productions of stage versions of Carmelites.
		Poulenc threw himself into the task, writing in a letter to a baritone friend that he was so taken with the project "I nearly called you Reverend Mother!" Poulenc's own health problems, intensified by hypochondria and coupled with the real illness of his lover, Lucien Roubert, made the creative process all the more difficult.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_7_128/ai_75445647 (751 words)

	CityBeat: Two for One (1999-03-11)
		This weekend they'll perform with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in François Poulenc's Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra.
		Poulenc considered his concerto nothing more than entertainment, based on French cabaret tunes -- "that adorable bad music" -- which he adored.
		The Poulenc concerto epitomizes the Labèques' deep affection for the European classic tradition and their affinity for contemporary composers including George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Olivier Messiaen, Luciano Berio and Pierre Boulez.
	www.citybeat.com /1999-03-11/onstage.shtml (839 words)

	Melissa Manchester : Melissa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		exploding thumbs : beginning of blue, melissa manchester %3A melissa francois poulenc : orchestre national de france) la voix humaine (marty, little texas : super hits vol 3.
		melissa manchester %3A melissa francois poulenc : orchestre national de france) la voix humaine (marty : wolfgang amadeus mozart : ens baroque de limoges) piano concertos nos.
		king diamond : nightmares of the nineties barbra streisand : christmas album melissa manchester %3A melissa francois poulenc : orchestre national de france) la voix humaine (marty, burl ives : lavender blue - songs of charm.
	www.cd-discounts.net /melissa-manchester-%3A-melissa.html (843 words)

	Remembering Poulenc - Briefme.com
		Therefore, it is fitting that we as classical music devotees should bookmark this retrospective article on the life and career of this self-taught composer, whose songs are considered among the best of the 20th century.
		This is a terrific overview to print out and give to those not yet familiar with Poulenc's ouevre.
		They'll thank you with the smiles that grace their faces when they go on to discover Poulenc's music for the first time.
	www.briefme.com /archive.php/article/11048 (117 words)

	Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Vol 3 - Naxos (USA) - NXS 8553613 - 730099461320 - H&B Recordings Direct (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonata for 2 Clarinets
		• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon
		• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone
	www.hbdirect.com /album_detail.php?id=384860 (333 words)

	2004 Festival CD liner notes
		Early in his career, Francois Poulenc gained notoriety as the most impudent member of "Les Six," a revolutionary group of French composers strongly opposed to the old guard romantics.
		The French author Colette, Poulenc's close friend, described the mellowed composer at the end of his career: "Up a chalky hill, Poulenc lives in a large, airy house with vineyards all around, and there he makes his wine, and he drinks it.
		Poulenc wrote his late Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962) for clarinetist Benny Goodman, who premiered the work with Leonard Bernstein as pianist at Carnegie Hall (1963).
	arizonachambermusic.org /04cd-notes.htm (2175 words)

	pedantic nuthatch
		Poulenc's melodic score doesn't give us conventional arias or other song structures to latch onto, although there are echoes of Puccini and other composers in the music.
		However, there is a striking set piece in the second act, a setting of Ave Maria for the ensemble of nuns.
		Indeed, one wishes for a dramatic antagonist to the religious women, one who would engage them in a genuine dialogue that could explicate the vow of martyrdom that they swear.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /nouveau/blog/2004/08/02.html (539 words)

	2004 Festival CD liner notes
		Early in his career, Francois Poulenc gained notoriety as the most impudent member of "Les Six," a revolutionary group of French composers strongly opposed to the old guard romantics.
		The French author Colette, Poulenc's close friend, described the mellowed composer at the end of his career: "Up a chalky hill, Poulenc lives in a large, airy house with vineyards all around, and there he makes his wine, and he drinks it.
		Poulenc wrote his late Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1962) for clarinetist Benny Goodman, who premiered the work with Leonard Bernstein as pianist at Carnegie Hall (1963).
	www.arizonachambermusic.org /04cd-notes.htm (2175 words)

	Composer Page - Francis Poulenc
		Poulenc: Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon: Rondo [3'09]
		Poulenc: Chansons francaises - C'est la petit' fill' du Prince [5'50]
		Mass in G; Petites Prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise; Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence; Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noel; Salve Regina; Exultate Deo; Litanies a la Vierge Noire
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /composer_page.asp?name=poulenc (192 words)

	Alfred Desenclos
		Desenclos' Requiem is reminiscent of the music of Durufle and, to a lesser degree, Camille Saint-Saens and Francois Poulenc.
		The requiem has been a 'victim' of plagiarism: it wasn't a conductor or a critic or a music scholar who discovered there was a problem with the Requiem.
		Desenclos' Requiem is reminiscent of the music of Durufle and, to a lesser degree, Camille Saint-Saens and Francois Poulenc; so when Foison presented the work as his own, the stark similarity to a compositional tradition more than 30 years old wasn't held against him.
	members.chello.nl /c.vandervloed/desenclos.htm (1228 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Poulenc: Mélodies and Songs [BOX SET] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Another interesting thing to note is that Poulenc, like Webern, was a master of the short piece.
		I mean, I love full-length operas as much as the next man, including Poulenc's own wonderful wonderful wonderful Dialogues Des Carmelites, but at the end of the day there's something particularly potent about small pieces.
		Strange to lump Poulenc in with modernism, except when you consider his poetic allegiances - Appolinaire, Eluard, Aragon (Irene's What?!!!) - they're all cutting-edge.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000241R2 (478 words)

	AroundCinci :: Lovers, leavers, and legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In François Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, the audience becomes a collective eavesdropper: on the stage, painfully alone, is a single woman.
		A very single woman, in fact, who is trying desperately to reach her former lover by telephone.
		Through a tense 45 minutes, she pleads, she argues, and she cries, while the orchestra, through Poulenc's deft orchestration and emotional evocation, provides for the audience the voice—or at least the personality—of the man who has abandoned her as his mistress.
	www.aroundcinci.com /gen_includes/article.asp?articleid=1692 (559 words)

	Poulenc, Francis - MSN Encarta
		Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963), French composer, pianist, and member of the group of composers known as Les Six, born in Paris.
		Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) A Comparative Discography
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	Classical Net Review -Poulenc - Chamber Works
		Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) together with Debussy, ravel and Milhaud has always been regarded as one of the major exponents of French music of the first half of the 20
		Listening to the works on this CD, I certainly heard echoes of all these masters, but Poulenc's unmistakable touch is very evident throughout.
		The two main pieces on this disc are the 1948 Cello Sonata and the Sonata for Two Pianos written in 1952-53.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/a/asv04014a.html (367 words)

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