With Bastille Day coming up on Monday, the focus this week on “The Lost Chord” will be Les Six, that collective of French composers who rose to prominence in Paris in the 1920s, followers of Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie – in reality, each following their own aims, but loosely organized around a reactionary stance against Wagnerism in music and the so-called Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel.
But never mind all that. What’s important is that they wrote plenty of delightful music, mostly in a neoclassical style.
We’ll have a chance to get up close and personal, as we listen to music by Les Six, performed by members of Les Six, with Georges Auric and Jacques Février playing music of Erik Satie into the bargain.
You can always count on The Six. I hope you’ll join me for “Six by Six” on “The Lost Chord,” now in syndication on KWAX, the radio station on University of Oregon!
Clip and save the start times for all three of my recorded shows:
PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT
THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT
Stream them, wherever you are, at the link!
PHOTO: Standing, left-to-right, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, and Louis Durey, with Jean Cocteau at the piano
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