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Danse de la chèvre (French for Dance of the Goat) is a piece for solo flute by Arthur Honegger, written in 1921 as incidental music for dancer Lysana of Sacha Derek's play La mauvaise pensée. At the start of the piece, there is a slow dreamlike introduction consisting of tritone phrases.
Théâtre du Jorat, Mézières, where the dramatic psalm was first performed. Original 1921 version: Honegger originally wrote his Le Roi David music for the forces that were available at Morax's Mézières village theatre group, creating a score for the resources available; a small ensemble of 16 musicians comprising: 2 flutes [1 doubling piccolo], 1 oboe [doubling cor anglais], 2 clarinets ...
1911 : H 110a Orgue dans l'église for organ, music used in Marthe Richard au service de la France, H 110 1937 : H 126a Hymne du bâtiment, music from Les bâtisseurs, H 126 1939 : H 137 Possèdes-tu, pauvre pécheur for unison chorus, harmonium or piano 1945 : H 183b Chant de la délivrance for voices and piano, music form Un Ami viendra ce soir
From 1952 to 1968, René Le Roy was a solo flute at the New York City Opera Orchestra, and until 1971 he was a chamber music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris. Among his students were Christine Alicot, Juho Alvas, Thomas Brown, Susan Morris DeJong, Geoffrey Gilbert and Bassam Saba.
Honegger's symphony, which contains musical quotations from two Basel folk songs, expresses the composer's happiness during a pleasant stay in the Swiss countryside after the end of World War II. [2] Despite the pastoral and often joyous mood throughout much of the symphony, the closing minutes include some tragic or more serious elements.
The piece is the first in Honegger's series of three symphonic movements. The other two are Rugby and Mouvement Symphonique No. 3. Honegger lamented that his "poor Symphonic Movement No. 3 paid dearly for its barren title". [2] Critics generally ignored it, while Pacific 231 and Rugby, with more evocative titles, have been written about in depth.
Orchestre de la Cité, Ile de France Regional Chorus: Naxos (USA) Une cantate de Noël: 1962 Ernest Ansermet: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande: Decca Une cantate de Noël 1971 Jean Martinon: Orchestre National de l'ORTF: Emi Classics The Tempest (prelude) 1991 Michel Plasson: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse: Deutsche Grammophon The Tempest ...
L'Aiglon is an opera (drame musical) in five acts composed by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert.Honegger composed acts 2, 3, and 4, with Ibert composing acts 1 and 5. A 2016 reviewer described it as "a singular piece of work" with its "blend of operetta, divertissement, conversation piece, historical pageant and, in the disturbingly powerful fourth act set on the Napoleonic battlefield at ...