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Compact Discoveries 35: One-Hit French Composers

Series: Compact Discoveries
From: Fred Flaxman
Length: 00:58:05

Music by Chabrier, d'Indy and Canteloube. Read the full description.
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Piece Description

Producer/presenter Fred Flaxman features Emmanuel Chabrier's "Espana," Vincent d'Indy's "Symphony on a French Mountaineer's Song," and an excerpt from Canteloube's one masterwork, "Songs of the Auvergne."

Broadcast History

This program was originally distributed nationally by the WFMT Radio Network in 2003. It has been re-edited for distribution via PRX, the Public Radio Exchange and carries a 15-second funding credit at the end for the National Endowment for the Arts and the PRX Reversioning Project.

Transcript

Compact Discoveries?
Program 35
"One-Hit French Composers"

MUSIC: Opening music from Giselle by Adolphe Adam, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Anatole Fistoulari [Mercury Living Presence 434 366-2, track 1], under

FLAXMAN: This is the opening music to the ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam. Giselle is Adam's one big hit and, although you won't hear any more of this particular piece during the next hour, stay with me and I'll play for you some terrific music by other "One-Hit French Composers."

MUSIC: fades out

FLAXMAN: Hello and welcome to Compact Discoveries. I'm your guide, Fred Flaxman, and this hour is devoted to "One-Hit French Composers."

A one-hit composer is a composer who had just one big hit in his career. That doesn't mean, of course, that he wrote only one piece. It doesn't mean that he didn't write several pieces that are worth listening to. What it...
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