04 Sep 2007
Poulenc Celebration
http://living.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1104&id=1398062007
http://living.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1104&id=1398062007
KENNETH WALTON [Scotsman, 3 September 2007]
FOR a Festival music programme that has had its eccentric touches, ending it with an all-out tribute to the acerbic tonal world of Francis Poulenc, and in particular the decapitation of an entire convent of nuns in his opera Dialogues des Carmélites, was gauche in the extreme.