Francis Poulenc led an interesting life as a musician. The French composer and pianist lived from 1899-1963, and was a member of Les Six-- the 6 -- referring to a close-knit group of musicians of the ...

On a performance by Paul Jacobs & the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of the organ concerto by Francis Poulenc. In my forthcoming chronicle for the magazine, I have a ...

So little is known about the queer lives” of Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Smyth, Poulenc, and Britten, highlights a ...

A review of Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols. Poulenc’s personality in and outside his music is plumbed in Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols, a celebrated British scholar. As a composer, ...

Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. “I am half-monk, half-bounder,” he would say, ...

France’s Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily urged its ...

Poulenc: A Biography, Roger Nichols, Yale, 372 pages, June 2020; Poulenc: The Life in the Songs, Graham Johnson, Liveright, 608 pages, June 2020. “All my life I have had a certain idea of France.” – ...

In Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, there's a roller-coaster ride of mood changes, but always an underlying wit. Teres Loef and Johan Ullen are the duo pianists in this performance, while ...

Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc were born about a year apart, and their lives paralleled one another when they both lived in 1930s France. In a recital at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min Francis Poulenc’s “Dialogues ...