Tonight, pianist Gila Goldstein performs a recital at Boston University including Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15. The 1959 piece, last in a series of Improvisations spanning Poulenc’s career, ...

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.” – ...

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 ...

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, ...

Festival Director Meurig Bowen doesn't have to commit, but he has shown much more faith in chameleonic, saintly Francis than, say, the Proms, where you'll only find one Poulenc work on the programme, ...

Celebrating its 65th anniversary, New Orleans Friends of Music opens its 2019-20 season in Tulane University’s Dixon Hall on Tuesday night with the return of the Poulenc Trio, featuring guest artist ...

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 ...

It’s a bumper year for composer anniversaries. There’s the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, fabulously gifted and with something odd and dark that fascinates us. There’s the 200th ...

As every agony aunt advises, the one thing not to do when a relationship ends is pick up the phone. Unless you want to apologise, reconcile, or lose every last shred of personal pride you have left, ...