Francis Poulenc - Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer. Poulenc was born in Paris. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. As a young man, in 1918 he was fulfilling his National Military Service but still managed to create the composition of three miniatures. At one time, the best known of all Poulenc's music was the three Mouvements perpétuels of 1918. Influenced by Igor Stravinsky as well as Maurice Chevalier and the French vaudeville, after the War, Poulenc joined a circle of young composers gathered around Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau whose followers opposed Impressionism, advocating instead simplicity and clarity and espousing a particularly flippant form of anti-Romanticism..
January 30 - the United States (+ 1945) 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (+ 1943) 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (+ 1959) 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian 1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (+ 1989) 1914 - David Wayne, actor (+ 1995) 1914 - John Ireland, actor (+ 1992) 1920 - Delbert Mann, director 1922 - Dick Martin, comedian 1924 - Lloyd Alexander, writer 1925 - Dorothy Malone, actress 1927 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (+ 1986) 1928 - Hal Prince, stage producer, director 1930 - Gene Hackman, actor 1931 - Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist and author 1935 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet (+ 1984) 1937 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress 1937 - Boris Spassky, chess grand master 1941 - Dick Cheney, politician 1943 -.
January 7 - on the computer and the bomb-making supplies found in the apartment room lead police officers lead by watch commander Aida Fariscal and investigators into foiling Project Bojinka, a mass-scale terrorist attack that was planned to start on January 21 and end in January 22 1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American. history hits eastern states killing more than 100. 1999 - The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton begins. 2000 - The 3rd day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit Births 1539 - Sebastián de Covarrubias Horozco, Spanish Lexicographer 1612 - Paul de La Pierre, composer 1768 - Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples (†1844) 1800 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, from 1850-1853 (†1874) 1831 - Heinrich von Stephan, organizer of the German postal.
Jean Pierre Rampal - of virtuoso pianists and string players. During his career, he performed with many of the world's most famous orchestras and chamber ensembles. As a chamber musician he collaborated with Isaac Stern and Mstislav Rostropovich and composers such as Francis Poulenc wrote especially for him. He is also notable for having unearthed, arranged, and performed many forgotten works of the Baroque era. During his lifetime, he had many honors bestowed upon him, including the Lotos Club Medal of Merit in recognition of his lifetime achievements, the Leonie Sonning Prize, the Prix du Président de la République and the Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros for his entire (lengthy) discography. He was made a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, Commandeur des Arts des Lettres and Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite. Each year, the.
Germaine Tailleferre - for Les Six began. The publication of Jean Cocteau's manifest Le Coq et L'Harlequin resulted in Henri Collet's media articles that lead to instant fame for the group. As the only female, she brought a uniquely fresh and feminine quality to the group’s compositions. Today, she is one of the most recorded. The other members of "Les Six" were: Georges Auric - (1899-1983) Louis Durey - (1888-1979) Arthur Honegger - (1892-1955) Darius Milhaud - (1892-1974) Francis Poulenc - (1899-1963) In 1923, Tailleferre began to spend a great deal of time with Maurice Ravel at his home in Monfort-L'Amaury. Ravel encouraged her to enter the Prix de Rome Competition. In 1925, she married Ralph Barton, an American caricaturist, and moved to Manhattan, New York. She remained in the United States until 1927.
Georges Auric - writing settings of poetry and other texts as songs and musicals. The other members of "Les Six" were: Louis Durey - (1888-1979) Arthur Honegger - (1892-1955) Darius Milhaud - (1892-1974) Francis Poulenc - (1899-1963) Germaine Tailleferre - (1892-1983) (the only female in the group) When Jean Cocteau started making motion pictures, at the beginning of the 1930s Auric began writing film scores. He wrote soundtracks for a number of French and British films, and his success led to writing the music for Hollywood movies too. Several times, Auric’s work made it onto the hit parade, notably "The Theme from Moulin Rouge". Films he scored included Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Roman Holiday (1953), The Wages of Fear (1955), Rififi (1956), Bonjour.
Georges Prêtre - in the 1960s. He worked with Maria Callas on a number of occasions, and made recordings of Carmen and Tosca with her. For a time he was music director of the Paris Opera. Aside from opera, Prêtre is best known for performances of French music. He is especially associated with Francis Poulenc, giving the premiere of his opera Le voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique in 1959 and his Sept répons des ténèbres in 1963. In 1999 he gave a series of concerts in Paris to celebrate the centenary of Poulenc's birth..
Grammy Awards of 1966 - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Album of the Year Sonny Burke (producer) & Frank Sinatra for September of My Years Song of the Year Johnny Mandel & Paul Francis Webster (songwriters) for "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper) performed by Tony Bennett Best New Artist Tom Jones Children's Best Recording for Children Marvin Miller for Dr. Seuss Presents "Fox in Sox" and "Green Eggs and Ham" Classical Best Classical Performance - Orchestra Leopold Stokowski (conductor) & the American Symphony Orchestra for Ives: Symphony No. 4 Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance Erich Leinsdorf (conductor), Leontyne Price & the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) Best Opera Recording Karl Bohm (conductor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear Fritz.
Guillaume Apollinaire - "Les Peintres cubistes" on the cubist painters, a movement which he helped to define. He also coined the term orphism to describe a tendency towards absolute abstraction in the paintings of Robert Delaunay and others. He fought in World War I and in 1916 was seriously wounded in the temple (see photo). While recovering from his wound, he wrote the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917) (the subject of an opera by Francis Poulenc premiered in 1947), which he described as surrealist, making it one of the first works to be so-described. He had earlier coined the word surrealism in the program notes for Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie's ballet Parade, first performed on 18 May 1917. He also published an artistic manifesto, L'Esprit nouveau et les poètes. The weakened Apollinaire.
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge - reputation for promoting "difficult" modern music (though he declined to support one of the most modern of all composers, Charles Ives). But she never aimed at such a reputation and explained her preferences in music as follows: "My plea for modern music is not that we should like it, nor necessarily that we should even understand it, but that we should exhibit it as a significant human document." Though American herself, she had no national preferences, and in fact most of his commissions went to European composers. She didn't have any urge to specifically promote women composers, either. The most lasting memorial to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's patronage of music are the compositions which she commissioned from practically every leading composer of the early 20th century. Among the best-known of those compositions.
Erik Satie - next door to artist Suzanne Valadon. They began an affair in January 1893, and Satie proposed marriage that same night. The only relationship of his life, he became obsessed with the beautiful artist, whom he called his "Biqui", writing impassioned notes about "her whole being, lovely eyes, gentle hands, and tiny feet." Valadon painted Satie's portrait and gave it to him but after six months, the beautiful Suzanne moved on, leaving Satie brokenhearted. After his death, her portrait of him (shown here) was found in his room at Arcueil. Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel were among Satie's friends. Although not hailed by the masses, he was admired by many young composers and musicians and was a big influence on Debussy in particular. Satie was the center of Les Six, a group.
Dennis Brain - in the Philharmonia recordings of the Siegfried Idyll and Brahms' First Symphony with Guido Cantelli, Tristan and Isolde with Wilhelm Furtwangler, the Brahms symphonies with Toscanini and Klemperer, Sibelius symphonies with Karajan, and many other recordings made up to August 1957. In the RPO one of his most enduring recordings is in Delius' Mass of Life. He also made several solo recordings, including both Richard Strauss concertos and all four Mozart Concertos. Dennis Brain was killed in a road accident while driving back from the Edinburgh Festival in his Triumph Sports Car, in August 1957. He loved cars and sometimes had a car magazine on his music stand. Part of his final recital at the festival has survived on disc. The following day he was due to play in a recording.
1899 - established. March 6 - Bayer registers aspirin as a trademark. March 20 - At Sing Sing, Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in an electric chair. October 11 - Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State erupts. David Hilbert creates the modern concept of geometry with the publication of his book Grundlagen der geometrie. Gordon Douglas is ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He is the first westerner to be ordained in the Theravada tradition. Art, Culture & Fashion 1899 in literature 1899 in music 1899 in sports Births January 7 - Francis Poulenc, composer January 10 - Axel Eggelbrecht, journalist (+ 1991) January 11 - Eva LeGallienne, actress (+ 1991) January 12.
1963 - from 15 to 30 minutes. September 9 - NBC expands its evening network news program to 30 minutes November 22 - regular television programming is suspended following news of John F. Kennedy's assassination November 23 - first episode of Dr Who is broadcast in the UK. November 24 - Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy's suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television. The television remote control is authorized by the FCC. Births January 14 - Steven Soderbergh, director January 21 - Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball January 23 - Gail O'Grady, actress January 26 - Andrew Ridgeley, musician February 9 - Travis Tritt, country music singer February 11 - Todd Benzinger, American baseball player February 17 - Michael Jordan, basketball legend February 19 - Seal, singer February 20 - Charles Barkley, American.
Arthur Honegger - frequently performed and recorded. Arthur Honegger died on November 27, 1955 and was interred in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris. Although Honegger was a member of Les Six, his work does not typically share the playfulness and simplicity of the other members of that group. Far from reacting against the romanticism of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss as the other members of Les Six did, Honegger's mature works show evidence of a distinct influence by it. The other members of "Les Six" were: Georges Auric - (1899-1983) Louis Durey - (1888-1979) Darius Milhaud - (1892-1974) Francis Poulenc - (1899-1963) Germaine Tailleferre - (1892-1983) (the only female in the group) The Pacific is a class of steam locomotive usually designated as a 4-6-2, with four pony wheels, six.
BACH motif - one of Bach's sons, probably either Johann Christian Bach or Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, exists using the motif, but it was not until the 19th century when interest in Bach was revived that the motif began to be used with any regularity. Perhaps because it was used by Bach himself in a fugue, the motif is often used by other composers in fugues or other complex contrapuntal writing. Works which prominently feature the BACH motif include: Robert Schumann - Six Fugues for organ, pedal piano or harmonium, opus 60 (1845) Franz Liszt - Fantasie und Fuge über das Thema B-A-C-H, for organ (1855, later arranged for piano) Max Reger - Fantasia and Fugue on B-A-C-H for organ (1900) Ferruccio Busoni - Fantasia contrappuntistica for piano (first version 1910, later versions 1912.
Babar the Elephant - his children, Flora, Pom, and Alexander. Besides his westernizing policies, Babar has also engaged in warfare with the rival Rhinoceroses. Babar's Books Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated seven Babar books; the series was continued by his son Laurent. Jean de Brunhoff's Babar books were: Histoire de Babar (1931) Le Voyage de Babar (1932) Le Roi Babar (1933) L'ABC de Babar (1934) Les vacances de Zéphir (1936) Babar en famille (1938) Babar et le père Noël (1941) The Babar stories are popular around the world. They have inspired musical works by Francis Poulenc and Raphael Mostel, and an animated television series by Nelvana..
Sergei Diaghilev - as Claude Debussy (Jeux, 1913), Maurice Ravel (Daphnis et Chloé, 1912), Erik Satie (Parade, 1917), Richard Strauss (Josephs-Legende, 1914), Sergei Prokofiev (Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite, and Chout, 1915), Ottorino Respighi (La Boutique fantasque, 1918), Francis Poulenc (Les Biches, 1923) and others. His choreographer Mikhail Fokine often adapted the music for ballet. The artistic director for the Ballets Russes was Leon Bakst, whose connection with Diaghilev extended back to 1898, when he, Diaghilev and Alexander Benois founded the avant-garde group 'World of Art' (Mir Iskusstva). Together they developed a more complicated form of ballet with show-elements intended to appeal to the general public, rather than solely the aristocracy. The exotic appeal of the Ballets Russes had an effect on Fauve painters and the nascent.
Père Lachaise - , Poet Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor Honoré de Balzac , writer Henri Barbusse , writer Paul Barras, statesman during the French Revolution Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, musician & more Gilbert Bécaud, singer Vincenzo Bellini, composer of operas Sarah Bernhardt, actress Georges Bizet, composer Alexander Brogniart, architect Ettore Bugatti automobile manufacturer Gustave Caillebotte, painter Maria Callas, Opera singer Jean-Joseph Carriès, sculptor Pierre Cartellier, sculptor Frédéric Chopin , composer Colette, Writer Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, painter Thomas Couture, painter, teacher Edouard Daladier, statesman Jacques Louis David, painter Eugene Delacroix, painter Gustave Doré, graphic artist, lithographer Michel Drach, film director, producer, screenwriter Paul Dukas, composer Isadora Duncan, American-born dancer Paul Eluard, poet Max Ernst, Surrealist and Expressionist artist Jean de la Fontaine, poet and writer of fables Théodore Géricault, painter Stephane Grappelli, Jazz violinist Samuel Hahnemann,.
Les Six - music was primarily a reaction against Wagnerism and Impressionism. In the painting to the right, from left to right, are Tailleferre, Milhaud, Honegger, Durey, Poulenc, Cocteau, Auric. In 1917, when many theatres and concert halls were closed because of the war, Blaise Cendrars and the painter Moise Kisling decided to put on a concert at 6 Rue Huyghens, the studio of the painter Emile Lejeune. For this event, the walls of the studio were decorated with canvases by Picasso, Matisse, Leger, Modigliani and others. Music by Satie, Honegger, Auric and Durey was played. It was this concert that gave Erik Satie the idea of assembling a group of composers around himself to be known as the "Nouveaux Jeunes", forerunners of Les Six. Following the ideas of Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau,.
