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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.
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.
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 ...
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) is a mystère lyrique, or sung mystery play (a dramatic sort of oratorio), by Paul Claudel with music by Arthur Honegger. Commissioned by Ida Rubinstein , it was written in 1935, premiered in 1938 and published in 1947 after rounds of minor revisions that extended into 1944.
He originally titled it Mouvement Symphonique, but after it was finished he changed the name to Pacific 231, a class of steam locomotive designated in Whyte notation as a 4-6-2, with four pilot wheels, six driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. (In France, where axles are counted rather than wheels, this arrangement is designated 2-3-1). [4]
Les nuits de la Main : Cent ans de spectacles sur le boulevard St-Laurent (1891–1991) [Nights on the Main: One hundred years of shows on boulevard St-Laurent (1891–1991)] (in French). Weintraub, W. (1998). McClelland & Stewart Inc. (ed.). City Unique : Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and 1950s. Toronto.
A private preview of The Idea took place in Paris on 23 January 1932; the Belgian artist Henry van de Velde and the German writers Stefan Zweig and Klaus Mann were amongst the attendees. [14] Mann lauded it as "of the highest ethical and artistic pathos". [e] [20] The official première—with Honegger's soundtrack—occurred in London in late ...