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Red and Purple attempting a dialog of the car-me-lites (TM). Red is singing Blanche today, and Purple is singing the Marquis de la Force who is with her at the Ford Theatre. The two meet on a subway car named Desire, in New York, on the West Side, First Toy Story when Grand Mercury is in Retrograde and Red is Blacklisted. It's complicated.
#francis poulenc#hyacinth#red flowers#purple flowers#original photographers#photographers on tumblr#macro#photography#flower#flowers#tumblr#on#off#inner life of flowers
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BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP
but it's just my best ones i have more but im lazy rn
#im too happy rn to have unhinged ppl like me#which is why im posting rn#sergei diaghilev#ballets russes#vaslav nijinsky#léonide massine#serge lifar#igor stravinsky#freddie mercury#pablo picasso#sergei rachmaninoff#gay#lgbtq#coco chanel#jean cocteau#francis poulenc#ballet memes#classical music#fun fact i actually have firebird stuck in my head rn#shitpost
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gotten two responses to the “what is YOUR opera” thing going around and both of them fit into the oddly specific category of “area french noblewoman with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder accidentally gets thrown into Major Parisian Historical Event in which she and many others get murdered by the french government for religious reasons”
haven’t we all been there
@malcolm-f-tucker @shredsandpatches
#opera tag#opera#dialogues des carmélites#dialogues of the carmelites#les huguenots#poulenc#francis poulenc#meyerbeer#giacomo meyerbeer#the types we have i guess…
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Classical Pride
I know I'm too late for Pride Month. And I wasn't planning on posting much this year related to Pride, mostly because the category of "queer composers" includes a large span of styles and eras where the sexuality or gender identity may not necessarily be relevant to the music.
However (at the very least here in America) the political atmosphere has made queerness "controversial" again, and whenever there's a vocal effort to erase queerness and insist upon a heteronormative view of culture, history, biology, psychology, morality, etc. it only ever leads to real world harm for all of us.
So I don't think Pride Month should end just because the corporate calendar is ready for the next marketable holiday or season; don't be afraid to say "Gay" or "Trans" or "Queer", we exist and have always existed and here are some contributions to classical music history (with a few significant Jazz composers).
This list is a mix, mostly music by LGBT composers (either those who self-identify, or those who were alive before the category was articulated but evidence shows they could be classified as "queer"), and some that are on queer subjects (i.e. the only Bach piece here is an aria he wrote for a cantata where the sun god Phoebus (Apollo) mourns the death of his lover Hyacinth, and accepts that through love he is never truly dead).
If there are any LGBT composers, or thematic works, that you think should be included, please let me know!
#lgbt history#happy pride#happy pride 🌈#Bach#Johann Sebastian Bach#Lully#Jean-Baptiste Lully#Ethel Smyth#Smyth#Szymanowski#Karol Szymanowski#Tchaikovsky#pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky#Benjamin Britten#Britten#Hahn#Reynaldo Hahn#Poulenc#Francis Poulenc#Copland#Aaron Copland#Carlos#Wendy Carlos#Samuel Barber#Barber#Menotti#Gian Carlo Menotti#Cage#John Cage#Thomas Ades
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Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) - Mélancolie, FP 105 (1940)
Performed by Pascal Rogé, piano
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Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61 - 1. Allegro ma non troppo
#Poulenc#Francis Poulenc#Orchestre de la Suisse Romande#Bracha Eden#Alexander Tamir#Sergiu Comissiona#listeningroom
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Every once in a while I think about the final movement of the Poulenc Stabat Mater and just have to sort of sit there and gibber, mentally, at the sheer levels of yearning expressed in it
#francis poulenc#i sang in this piece last year#with jeanine de bique as the soprano soloist#and while the choir conductor drama got pretty upsetting#i adore this piece#so many feelings#we did the dialogues des carmelites final scene in the same concert with de bique as blanche#the other nuns were women from the chorus#(not me of course i am not in the top 15 singers)#(and i was not in the choir when auditions were held)#when i talked to people about the concert the carmelites overshadowed everything#which is understandable but also#the stabat mater is so good#that final amen#it's the most anguished thing ever#we've been singing about paradise but we are NOT YET THERE#Youtube
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Kinda hate that the blorbos took over my mind because I'll be at the opera (bless student discounts) enjoying myself, hear "J'ai le fil autour de mon cou/J'ai ta voix autour de mon cou" ("I've got the [phone]cord around my neck/I've got your voice around my neck") and immediatly be like
that would make a great vegaspete fanfiction
#vegaspete#vegaspete fanfiction#kinnporshe the series#kinnporshe fanfiction#la voix humaine#jean cocteau#francis poulenc#i didn't think i'd ever put those tags together
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Do you ever listen to the Poulenc Oboe Sonata and just
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August 20, 2023
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it’s july 17 again so it’s time to post this again
#will never ever ever be over this in my entire life#opera tag#opera#dialogues des carmélites#dialogues of the carmelites#poulenc#francis poulenc#it’s been 230 years…#Youtube
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La voix humaine Francis Poulenc Jean Cocteau
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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Eight Nocturnes for Piano solo, written in 1929-1938
00:00 - I. Sans traîner 03:05 - II. Très animé [Bal des jeunes filles] 04:22 - III. Modéré mais sans lenteur [Les cloches de Malines] 08:16 - IV. Lent, très las et piano [Bal fantôme] 09:49 - V. Presto misterioso [Phalènes] 11:06 - VI. Très calme mais sans traîner 14:40 - VII. Assez allant 16:38 - VIII. Très modéré [Pour servir de coda au cycle]
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud, piano
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