<div dir="auto"> Francis Poulenc: January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963. <div dir="auto"> Poulenc was conscripted into the Army of France and served from January 1918 to January 1921. His duties allowed him time for composition. He was a student and protege of Erik Satie, and wrote these on a piano in a local French elementary school near where he was stationed. These three short pieces premiered in Paris in December, 1918.</div><div dir="auto"> The suite was described by the pianist Alfred Cortot as being " reflections of the ironical outlook of Satie adapted to the sensitive standards of the current intellectual circles."</div><div dir="auto"> "Each of the three pieces ends inconclusively, leaving the music unresolved, to linger in our minds." - Marina and Victor Ledin.</div><div dir="auto"> The pianist and author Roger Nichols noted that the little flourishes with which each piece ends 'are the epitome of urban irony."</div><div dir="auto"> Poulenc compared them to having a brisk stroll by the Seine.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[I'm sending them separately since there was apparently some kind of French underground resistance to having them consolidated in one simple email, so that mission was left unsuccessfully completed.] </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Randall Kidder</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Randall Kidder</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:randallkidder88@gmail.com">randallkidder88@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 4:24 PM<br>Subject: Trois Mouvements Perpetuels - Francis Poulenc<br>To: Randall Kidder <<a href="mailto:randallkidder88@gmail.com">randallkidder88@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">I. Assez modere<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Randall Kidder</div></div>
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