Songs
Séguidille
(1881)
L14
Séguidille
Un jupon serré sur les hanches,Un peigne énorme sur son chignon,Jambe nerveuse et pied mignon,Oeil de feu, teint pâle et dents blanches;Alza! olà!VoilàLa véritable Manola.Gestes hardis, libre parole,Sel et piment à pleine main,Oubli parfait du lendemain,Amour fantasque et grâce folle.Chanter, danser au son des castagnettes,Et, dans les courses de taureaux,Juger les coups des toreros,Tout en fumant des cigarettes;Alza! olà!VoilàLa véritable Manola.
Seguidilla
Her skirt clinging to her hips,in her chignon a huge comb,rippling legs and dainty feet,eyes ablaze, pale complexion, white teeth;Alza! Olà!Beholda true street-girl of Madrid.Bold of gesture, free of speech,almost too hot to handle,utterly oblivious of the morrow,explosive with love and wild grace.She sings and dances to castanetsand, in the bull-ring,judges the bullfighters’ blows,while smoking her cigarettes;Alza! Olà!Beholda true street-girl of Madrid.
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
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Composer
(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Poet
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
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Upcoming performances:
- 12 Oct 2020: Lucy Crowe & Anna Tilbrook
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Previously performed at:
- 13 Oct 2018: Debussy: A Life in Song
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Séguidille
Seguidilla
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Composer
(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Please click here for the full Wikipedia article.
See Full Entry
Poet
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While Gautier was an ardent defender of Romanticism, his work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as diverse as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Proust and Oscar Wilde.
Taken from Wikipedia. To view the full article, please click here.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Upcoming performances:
- 12 Oct 2020: Lucy Crowe & Anna Tilbrook
Previously performed at:
- 13 Oct 2018: Debussy: A Life in Song
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