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Kes,

I got your email. I hope you don't mind that I respond here (rather than by email). The draft looks good. Will there be links there to the extant articles?

I think I will have look at the Ravel article and see if there's anything I can use there on his style as compared to Fauré and St-Saens.

I've done revision and addition to the Fauré article, and I looked at that address you gave me, today and pulled the info I needed. I'll let you know when the completed draft is up. Still need to find a way to reference, but that shouldn't be too difficult.

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Great. Yes - we'll use this thread to communicate. The Ravel article must be nearly ready for release - they keep moving it around. Currently it's at A506332 ...

Yes - we'll have links to it and other relevant articles. yes, you can easily make the RW link between Faure, Ravel & Saint Saens along the teacher\pupil generational track.

The Uni have approved the project, so we can go ahead. I will start drafting the main section of the covering article next week. When it exists, I would very much appreciate your review and comments. I'm hoping the covering article will be a collaborative piece amond all the researchers on the project.

I'll use the project submission entry to keep everyone up to date on people joining the team.

Talk again soon!

Kes

First draft of covering article is "up" (far from complete!).
Please take a look at: A507719, and comment about it. Lots of feedback hoped for!

I realise that you've got to have an end-date, and that (for geo-political reasons) 1940 is as good as any. But it'd be wrong to be quite so dismissive of French music in the years immediately following that ('all modern music sounds the same').

I'm thinking particularly of Francis Poulenc. I don't know any of his non-choral music (hey, I'm a singer), but even in that limited range, there is some very important stuff. Even if you took the dateline just to 1945, you'd have room for La Figure Humaine - a giant cantata to poems of Elouard which was smuggled out of France during the war so that the BBC Singers could rehearse it; it was premiered on (I think) VE Day itself (its last movement is a surreal, but powerful, hymn to liberty). If you're interested, I'll try to knock up something about him and his choral music (of course, much of it comes from after the war).

The other area of distinctively French music of the time - about which, alas, I know little, is organ music; it's certainly worth a seaprate mention. Can anyone out there help on that?

Darned good point about Poulenc - thank you. Yes - let's include that. Did I just hear you volunteer to write up a bit about him? (I'm not asking for a full bio - just a few notes, plus - if possible - detail on La Figure Humaine, because it makes good reading. If you're happy to take that on, Wol, then I'll move the end date out to 1945 ....

Organ music ... OK - let's see who comes back with suggestions.

Thanks for your ideas! Great stuff.

I guess I set myself up for that, didn't I? OK - give me a couple of days.

Fantastic! I look forward to seeing your stuff. Thanks, Wol!

I've started a thread where all contributors can comment on the main Entry. Please bookmark it, and use the thread - atm we're spread around about 6 conversations! :-) Thread is: http://www.h2g2.com/F62205?thread=98485&post=819583