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Classical preview: Le Roi David, Edinburgh


Fashions in 20th-century music come and go, and Arthur Honegger Noun 1. Arthur Honegger - Swiss composer (born in France) who was the founding member of a group in Paris that included Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau (1892-1955)
Honegger
 definitely seems out of favour at the moment. In the 1920s he was a member of the chic, Paris-based group of composers known as Les Six Les Six is a name, inspired by The Five, given in 1923 by critic Henri Collet in an article titled ‘Les cinq russes, les six français et M. Satie’ (Comoedia , but nowadays his fellow members Francis Poulenc Noun 1. Francis Poulenc - French pianist and composer (1899-1963)
Poulenc
 and Darius Milhaud Noun 1. Darius Milhaud - French composer of works that combine jazz and polytonality and Brazilian music (1892-1974)
Milhaud
 are better remembered and performed far most frequently than he is, and his seriousness and commitment to counterpoint always set him apart from his often far more frivolous colleagues. Honegger's symphonies occasionally crop up in concerts, but his larger-scale works are heard far less frequently; Le Roi David, a "symphonic psalm" that the composer created in 1921 from incidental music he'd written for a biblical drama, is a real rarity. The Edinburgh performance is conducted by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's music director Stéphane Denève, who is establishing himself as a champion of neglected French music, with actor Andrzej Seweryn as narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. .

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