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, ...

Cellist Young In Na graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2019. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the New England Conservatory. Young In performs two pieces from French composer ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.” – ...

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 ...

Cocardes Robert Murray, Tenor Francis Poulenc, Composer Robert Murray, Tenor Malcolm Martineau, Piano (3) Métamorphoses Lisa Milne, Soprano Francis Poulenc, Composer Malcolm Martineau, Piano Chansons ...

Composer Francis Poulenc was "part monk, part naughty boy," says pianist Judith Lynn Stillman. What better subject could Stillman have for her own "April in Paris with Poulenc," which she stages on ...