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Jean-Claude Risset

French Composers’ Names – Jean-Claude Risset

Another composer in our French Composers' Names series: Jean-Claude Risset. Well, composer and resea... Learn how to pronounce Risset's name in French!
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Germaine Tailleferre

French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1893-1983) is best-known today as the only female member of th...
Author
Kendra Leonard
Maurice Ravel

French Composers’ Names – Maurice Ravel

What better day to post this than on his birthday? Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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Music I’m Buying

Since joining the I Care if You Listen team, I have been privileged to have the opportunity to revie...
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Andrew Lee
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French Composers’ Pieces – Le Noir de l’Etoile (Gérard Grisey)

“In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal, in the fo...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Stéphane Degout (Pelléas) et Elena Tsallagova (Mélisande) - Photo by Charles Duprat

French Pieces’ Names – Pelléas et Mélisande

Yesterday, somebody Googled Pelleas et Melisande Pronunciation and landed on I Care if You Listen. I...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Nadia and Lili Boulanger

After a brief Facebook/Twitter survey, Nadia Boulanger emerged as a good candidate for this French C...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Marc-André Dalbavie

French Composers’ Names – Marc-André Dalbavie

Our next installment in our French Composers' Names series is one of the most exciting French compos...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Pierre Boulez

Bank holiday here in the US today (Columbus Day) so you will get two MP3s for the price of one. This...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Georges Delerue

French Composers’ Names — Georges Delerue

This week’s composer might be more famous among movie buffs than concert goers. Indeed, in 198...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Hugues Dufourt

French Composers Names’ — Hugues Dufourt

This week’s composer is Hugues Dufourt, another clever chap. Born in 1943 in Lyons, Dufourt tr...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Philippe Manoury

Another post request from a Google+ friend. This time, I’ve been asked to record the pronuncia...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Eric Tanguy

French Composers’ Names – Eric Tanguy

Part of the new generation of French composers, Eric Tanguy (born in 1968 in Caen—the capital of the...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950)

French Composers’ Names — Charles Koechlin

Charles Koechlin is, without a doubt, one of the most important (and influential) French composers o...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

Accessibility and value, or does “faster” mean “less”?

Two years ago, the first time I went to Music with a View in TriBeCa, Geoffrey Burleson (with whom I...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names — Gabriel Fauré

This French composer’s name is extremely easy to pronounce for English speakers. Apart from th...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Henri Dutilleux

French Composers’ Names – Henri Dutilleux

This next composer in our French Composers’ Names series is Henri Dutilleux, a French composer...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Pascal Dusapin © AFP/John MacDougall

French Composers’ Names – Pascal Dusapin

I can’t really tell how famous this week’s composer is in the US. In almost 5 years in N...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

French Composers’ Names – Darius Milhaud

This week’s installment in our French composers’ names series is another member of Les S...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)

French Composers’ Names – Paul Dukas

This week’s composer was also known as a music critic, and orchestrator (for Saint-Saëns for i...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

French Composers’ Names – Francis Poulenc

This composer in our French Composers’ Names series was part of Les Six, this group of young P...
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Thomas Deneuville
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French Composers’ Names – Claude Debussy

The next installment in our French Composers’ Names series might be one of the most famous Fre...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Tristan Murail ©Elisabeth Schneider

French Composers’ Names – Tristan Murail

This week’s composer in our French Composers’ Names series is one of the founders of the...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

French Composers’ Names – Camille Saint-Saëns

The next composer that might need our attention in this French Composers’ Names series intende...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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