Songs
Hyde Park
(1941)
FP 127 no.2
Hyde Park
Les Faiseurs de religionPrêchaient dans le brouillardLes ombres près de qui nous passionsJouaient à collin maillardÀ soixante-dix ansJoues fraîches de petits enfantsVenez venez EléonoreEt que sais-je encoreRegardez venir les cyclopesLes pipes s'envolaientMais envolez-vous-enRegards impénitentsEt l'Europe l'EuropeRegards sacrésMains enamouréesEt les amants s'aimèrentTant que prêcheurs prêchèrent
Hyde Park
The religion-mongersWere preaching in the fogThe shadows that we passed byWere playing blind man’s buffSeventy years oldCheeks as fresh as a baby’sCome along Eleonore come alongAnd what more besidesLook at the Cyclops looming upTheir pipes flying by But be offStubborn gazesAnd Europe EuropeWorshipping gazesHands in loveAnd the lovers made loveAs long as the preachers preached
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
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Composer
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (F7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.
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Poet
Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and the term "surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. The term Orphism (1912) is also his. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for the 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin, L'Intransigeant, L'Esprit nouveau, Mercure de France, and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine.
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.
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- 22 Oct 2018: Heimat: Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
Composer
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (F7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodies, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music.
Read the full Wikipedia article here.
See Full Entry
Poet
Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and the term "surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. The term Orphism (1912) is also his. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for the 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin, L'Intransigeant, L'Esprit nouveau, Mercure de France, and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine.
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.
Taken from Wikipedia. Read more here.
Click here to read some of his poetry.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
- 22 Oct 2018: Heimat: Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu
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