#francis poulenc

[photoblogdujour]

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.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

but yeah seriously. have you ever had a blorbo from your shows get canonized

[scherzokinn]

BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

but it's just my best ones i have more but im lazy rn

[doyouknowthisopera]

[mikrokosmos]

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!

[lesser-known-composers]

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) - Mélancolie, FP 105 (1940)

Performed by Pascal Rogé, piano

[antronaut]

Poulenc: Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra in D Minor, FP 61 - 1. Allegro ma non troppo

[shredsandpatches]

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

[poluche334]

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

[dutchjan]

August 20, 2023

[isoldescurse]

I actually believe Veronique Gens recording of La Voix Humaine is the best one on record by far right now. Gens makes a full fleshed completely operatic interpretation of the opera. I often feel like The Human Voice is performed more as a play that is being acted by an opera singer than as an opera. Gens never goes into that place: this is an opera, fully theatrical and musical, with dramatical outbursts and lyrical moments, acted out by an amazingly intelligent singer-actress.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

!!!

[dianadimauro]

Some stage photos from my recent performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, in Toronto. I played the role of Mother Marie. This was one of the most challenging and rewarding characters I have ever had the privilege to play. The opera is a masterpiece.

[elmartillosinmetre]

Mi crítica del concierto de Ana María Valderrama y David Kadouch el martes en el Centro Federico García Lorca.

[lesser-known-composers]

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