Beginning in the late 1970s she began to tackle soprano roles, including Selika in L ' Africaine, Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, Lady Macbeth Macbeth, Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites ( Met1977 ), Tosca, Norma ( from Boston 1976 till Messina 1989 ), Aida ( Boston 1980 and 1989 ), Desdemona ( Otello ) ( 1981 ), Leonore ( Fidelio ) ( Met 1983 ), Iphigénie ( 1984 – 85 ), Alceste ( 1985 ), Médée ( Cherubini ) ( 1986 )..

He went on to sing several more comprimario roles with the company that year, including the Jailer in the United States premiere of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Bernac recorded several of Poulenc's songs, accompanied by the composer on the piano, in 1947.

In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto ( the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor ); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part.

When Humphries was on the BBC's Desert Island Discs radio programme in 2009, he made the following choices: " Mir ist der Ehre widerfahren " from Strauss ’ Der Rosenkavalier ; Gershwin's " Things are Looking Up " sung by Fred Astaire ; " Love Song " composed by Josef Suk ; " On Mother Kelly's Doorstep " sung by Randolph Sutton ; " Der Leiermann " from Schubert's Winterreise song cycle ; the 2nd movement of Poulenc's Flute Sonata ; Mischa Spoliansky's " Auf Wiedersehen "; and " They are not long the weeping and the laughter " from Delius ' Songs of Sunset.

In 1988 she sang a concert performance of Poulenc's one-act opera La Voix Humaine (" The Human Voice "), based on Jean Cocteau's 1930 play of the same name.

Francis Poulenc's Sonata for clarinet and piano in B-flat ( FP 184 ) dates from 1962 and is one of the last pieces he completed.

In the 20th century, examples include: Agustín Barrios's Julia Florida ; the second movement of Villa-Lobos's Trio No. 2 ( 1915 ) ( which contains a Berceuse-Barcarolla ); the first movement of Francis Poulenc's Napoli Suite for solo piano ( 1925 ); George Gershwin's Dance of the Waves ( 1937 ); Ned Rorem's three Barcaroles for piano, composed in Morocco ( 1949 ); " The Kings ' Barcarole " from Leonard Bernstein's Candide ( 1956 ); and " Agony " from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods.

During the 1920s, Poulenc's most immediate influences were Chabrier, Debussy, Satie, and Stravinsky, and he generally followed the irreverent, flippant aesthetic stance of Les Six with melodies influenced by Parisian music halls.

Poulenc's music is fundamentally tonal ; although he made use of harmonic innovations such as pandiatonicism and chromatically altered chords.

Dialogues contributes to Poulenc's reputation as a composer especially of fine vocal music.

One of Poulenc's earliest sonatas, he referred to it as an " entertainment " and later revised it in 1945.

Poulenc's deep religious feelings are particularly evident in the gorgeous a cappella setting of Ave Maria in Act II, Scene II, and the Ave verum corpus in Act II, Scene IV.

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).

She decided to honor his memory by commissioning several works of the young composers of her time, amongst others Igor Stravinsky's Renard, Erik Satie's Socrate ( by her intercession Satie was kept out of jail when he was composing this work ), Darius Milhaud's Les Malheurs d ' Orphée, Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos and Organ Concerto, Jean Françaix's Le Diable boîteux and Sérénade pour douze instruments, Kurt Weill's Second Symphony, and Germaine Tailleferre's First Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.

It is now one of Poulenc's best known works and is a prominent feature in 20th century flute repertoire.

She and her husband financed Ray's film Les Mystères du Château de Dé ( 1929 ), Poulenc's Aubade ( 1929 ), Buñuel and Dalí's film L ' Âge d ' Or ( 1930 ), and Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ).

* Francis Poulenc's concerto for two pianos.

Frequently the organ is given a soloistic part, such as in Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante for Organ & Orchestra, Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Organ, Strings and Tympani, and Frigyes Hidas ' Organ Concerto.

She created the role of ( Blanche ) in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites in 1957 at La Scala, later performing his solo masterpiece for soprano La Voix Humaine.

* Francis Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata ( 1962 ); Sonata for 2 Clarinets, op.

Somewhat melodically sparse, the piece features repetition, sequences, and shifting meters, recalling Eric Satie and Igor Stravinsky and pointing the way forward for Poulenc's developing style.

The is also a version for organ 658 with the title ' Evocation à la Chapelle Sixtine ' The text is even used in an opera, Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Some, such as opera critic Alan Rich, also see Poulenc's concerns for the travails of post-World War II France as a subtext within the opera.

Palmer is noted for her interpretation of the role of Madame de Croissy in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, which she has sung at the Metropolitan Opera and at the Lyric Opera of Chicago's first ever production of the work.

The sonata is the last of Poulenc's three sonatas for wind instruments, the others being the Flute Sonata ( 1956 ) and the Clarinet Sonata ( 1962 ).

In 1932 he and the composer were the soloists in the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos.

His parents had met at one of the first performances of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902 ; his mother and two brothers were singers, and his sister, 15 years older, was the soprano Geneviève Touraine, who gave the first performance of Poulenc's Fiançailles pour rire in 1942.

She sang two solo one-act operas at the Houston Grand Opera in March 2006-Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and the world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's Send ( who are you?

Francis Poulenc's Motets pour le temps de noël, Gloria, and Mass in G are often performed.

It was dedicated to Poulenc's last lover, Louis Gautier ( a manual worker he met in 1957 ; they stayed together until Poulenc died ).

1939, 1955 ) and Francis Poulenc's Cello Sonata ( 1948 ).

Later adaptations of the fable to ballet include Henri Sauguet's La cigale at la fourmi ( 1941 ) and the third episode in Francis Poulenc's Les Animaux Modèles ( Model Animals, 1941 ).

Some independent comics continued in the tradition of underground comics, though their content was generally less explicit, and others resembled the output of mainstream publishers in format and genre but were published by smaller artist-owned companies or by single artists.

Tin working continued throughout Roman occupation although it appears that output declined because of new supplies brought in from the deposits discovered in Iberia ( Spain and Portugal ).

Around 1740 his musical output fell sharply, even though he continued fulfilling his duties as Hamburg music director.

This led to a further decline in his output around 1762, however, he was still capable of composing music of highest quality, and continued to write until his death on the evening of 25 June 1767.

After World War II, despite the criticism, Achard's literary output continued unabated.

In the late 1980s, this subsector continued to dominate, accounting for about 45 percent of industrial activity, depending on agricultural output in a given year.

Although input / output devices continued to be mapped into memory addresses, some additional programming was necessary to set up the added bus interfaces.

Proved oil reserves of 15 billion barrels ( 588, 000, 000 m³ ) should ensure continued output at current levels for 23 years.

However the larger older styles continued to be used especially as higher power rectifiers, in higher power audio output stages and as transmitting tubes.

The state of affairs continued until the 1960s when IBM, already a leading hardware vendor, stopped work on existing systems and put all their effort into developing the System / 360 series of machines, all of which used the same instruction and input / output architecture.

T138 itself continued in production until 1969 when it was replaced by improved T148 where designers main target was increase in power output, reliability and product improvements.

The ABC continued erasing older television output into the early 1980s.

They continued to turn a share of their agricultural output over to their spiritual guide, as groundnut production was the community ’ s only means of sustenance.

The result was that the band's output dropped sharply, producing only three albums over the space of ten years ( including a concert album ), although the band continued touring.

With Nicol on board, the band released the album They Called Her Babylon early in 2004, and extensively toured the UK, Europe and Australia, and their relatively prolific output continued with the release of the Christmas album ' Winter ' later the same year, as the band ended a busy year of touring with a gala performance in London's Palladium theatre.

A heart attack in 1970 slowed Newton's output, but his notoriety continued to increase, most notably with his 1980 " Big Nudes " series, which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, underpinned with excellent technical skills.

The company's reputation and output continued to grow.

The CB lobby continued to insist that any CB system had to use the ( US ) 27 MHz band, be AM and a maximum output power of 4 watts ( i. e. the US system ).

It was sold to ABC in early 1991 and became ABC Productions, although Orion continued to retain ownership of all its television output.

After the stroke, his scholarly output diminished, but he continued to travel, write letters, and host dignitaries and friends at his Washington, D. C., home.

While working with ATR, Empire continued steadily with his solo output.

Van Zandt continued writing and performing through the 1990s, though his output slowed noticeably as time went on.

Whiteley's work output began a steep decline, although its market value continued to climb.

Throughout the decade, the Charley Chase shorts continued to stand alongside Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang as the core output of the Roach studio.