In 1999, when Hoechst merged with Rhone-Poulenc to form Aventis, it decided to sell Messer Griesheim's welding business.
Poulenc, for example, loved to tiptoe the line between the sublime and the silly.
If you equate "greatness" with sheer originality, Poulenc is bound to come up short and he knew it.
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Dexter and Reppa made no attempt whatsoever to superimpose an alien directorial concept on Poulenc's tragic tale of martyrdom.
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Perhaps not surprisingly, the critics of Poulenc's day were thrown off the scent by his apparent inconsistency of tone.
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What is it about Poulenc's music that makes it hard for some listeners to understand exactly how good it is?
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Least of all did they care for composers who, like Poulenc, happily embraced tunefulness and wit and sought to give pleasure to their audiences.
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There is a touching letter from Poulenc to his friend and fellow-composer, Darius Milhaud, who had spent the 1940s in America, written soon after the liberation of Paris.
For all his humor, though, Poulenc was at bottom a deeply serious artist who never quite managed to reconcile the two sides of his no less deeply divided personality.
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Today the avant-garde monopoly is a thing of the blessedly distant past, but Poulenc, though his music continues to be played around the world, is still widely seen as a lightweight.
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There are relatively few solo compositions for trombone, and the trombone is rarely featured in chamber music, although the French composer Francis Poulenc wrote an excellent trio for trombone, trumpet, and horn (1922).
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One of the most harrowing final scenes in all of opera is the ending of Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites, " when the nuns condemned by the French Revolution walk one by one to the scaffold, singing a gradually thinning chorus punctuated by the slashing sounds of a guillotine.
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