#francis poulenc

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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.

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

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

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BALLETS RUSSES MEME DUMP

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

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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!

[lesser-known-composers]

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

Performed by Pascal Rogé, piano

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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

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

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August 20, 2023

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!!!

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Watching Dialogues des Carmélites because I am that obsessed with the finale. I thought it might be hard to find but the whole thing (the Metropolitan Opera one) is on YouTube with English subtitles!

I love how Blanche's dad is like "Ehh you're worrying too much" re: her brother saying she was spotted with her carriage surrounded by a mob and then like 30 seconds later has a very dramatic flashback to his own experience with an unruly mob followed by his wife dying in childbirth later that same day

Poor guy just wants to read a book with his little lap blanket and instead he gets that, his son venting to him, and his daughter announcing she wants to become a nun

Currently ~40 minutes in. Sister Constance is adorable and Blanche is kind of a killjoy. Or, you know, having a more appropriate emotional response to current events

Stopping at 47:31 because I am tired and keep zoning out between subtitles and having to rewind, but I'm looking forward to watching more of it!

Also, for future reference, it's based on the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, but kind of indirectly? There was Die Letzte am Schafott (The Last on the Scaffold), a novella by Gertrud von Le Fort, published in English as The Song at the Scaffold. It was adapted into a play called The Song at the Scaffold and a screenplay that ended up being performed as a play called Dialogues des Carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites). The latter was published in German as Die begnadete Angst (The Blessed Fear) and adapted into an opera by Poulenc and later served as the basis for two films, Le Dialogue des Carmélites and Dialogues des Carmélites, with the latter apparently being more faithful to the original Dialogues des Carmélites

[cassowary-classical]

This week's composer: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Member of Les Six and mentee of Satie until they had some sort of falling out, possibly due to Poulenc becoming friends with one of Satie's (seemingly many) enemies

This is so lively and fun! The first movement alone cured me of the lingering effects of Bruckner week

It reminds me of when it finally warms up and you peel all of your layers off and can stretch out vs. bracing yourself for the cold

[pangaeaseas]

soothing and lovely just what I need

[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

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she dialogue with my carmelites till i lottielee. is this anything