Ned Rorem - 8 January, 1988
from Lies: A Diary 1986-1999, page 112:
Poulenc's music - some of it - is about vulgarity, but is itself never vulgar. On the contrary, even such earthy cycles as the Chansons gaillardes and the Chansons Villageoises are refined to a tee.
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Ned Rorem, Lies: A Diary 1986-1999 (New York, 2002), p. 112. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436821389720 accessed: 22 November, 2024
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Chansons gaillardes
written by Francis Poulenc |
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Chansons Villageoises
written by Francis Poulenc |
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| Date/Time | 8 January, 1988 |
| Medium | playback |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors, solitary |
Originally submitted by pashworth on Mon, 13 Jul 2015 22:03:09 +0100
Approved on Tue, 02 Feb 2016 12:08:50 +0000