Francis Poulenc

By contrast, Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis in D, sung by the women, suggested the quirky-sassy spikiness of the composer's French contemporary, Francis Poulenc.

Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

By contrast, Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis in D, sung by the women, suggested the quirky-sassy spikiness of the composer's French contemporary, Francis Poulenc.

Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

By contrast, Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis in D, sung by the women, suggested the quirky-sassy spikiness of the composer's French contemporary, Francis Poulenc.

Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

By contrast, Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis in D, sung by the women, suggested the quirky-sassy spikiness of the composer's French contemporary, Francis Poulenc.

Rodney Punt: Bridges to Somewhere: Master Chorale Embraces Worlds in Los Angeles Rodney Punt 2011

And though most of the works by Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel featured this season are in no way unexpected except, perhaps, in their number, scores by André Jolivet, Francis Poulenc, Edgard Varèse and Henri Vieuxtemps come as something of a surprise.

Seattle Symphony's French Revolution David Mermelstein 2011

Troubled by his own nascent Catholicism as well as the state of war-torn Europe, Francis Poulenc wrote his choral masterpiece, Figure humaine, in 1943, calling the cantata both a "sacred duty" and a patriotic gesture to France.

Francis Poulenc: Figure Humaine/Choral Works 2010

One favorite of hers is Francis Poulenc, a French composer who she says had a particularly painterly approach to his work: He ' s always been a favorite.

' Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg 2010

Characteristically, the selections will also include familiar and rare music by a wide range of Prokofiev's contemporaries, among them Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Reinhold Glière, Nikolay Myaskovsky, Aleksandr Scriabin, John Alden Carpenter, Francis Poulenc, George Gershwin and Vernon Duke (the Russian-born Vladimir Dukelsky).

Prokofiev and His World 2008

And if we listen to one of the six, the music of Francis Poulenc, we can hear this idea taken into wittiness, but wittiness combined with really great charm and beauty.

Slimming Down the Classics 2007

And if we listen to one of the six, the music of Francis Poulenc, we can hear this idea taken into wittiness, but wittiness combined with really great charm and beauty.

Slimming Down the Classics 2007