Beyond the Human Voice: Francis Poulenc's Psychological Drama La Voix humaine (1958) Page: 5
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Satie was enraged:
Who is giving you such odd advice? It's funny.
Never get mixed up with 'schools': there's been an explosion-quite natural, by
the way.... Your visit to Vidal was that of an amateur pupil, not of an artist
pupil. He showed you that. He's one of the old school and he intimidated you.3
Ironically, Rapsodie ndgre was the work for which Poulenc first received recognition,
leading to the inclusion of his works in concerts featuring prominent French composers.
Satie's relationship with Poulenc changed as the result of a conflict over artistic
styles. When Poulenc and Auric allied themselves with the Surrealist poets in 1924, Satie
expressed his disagreement. He objected to what was deemed to be "automatic writing"
of the surrealists as well as Andr6 Breton's dislike of music.4
Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso on a ballet that inspired
young French composers, including Poulenc. Produced by the Ballet Russe under the
direction of Sergei Diaghilev, Parade (1917) has been called a Cubist ballet, mainly
because of Picasso's sets. While Cocteau's scenario and Satie's music also fall into the
Cubist umbrella, Glenn Watkins prefers music critic Huntley Carter's description of
Parade as "simultaneous." The audience is able to listen simultaneously to a parade
outside of the staged theater and the music inside the theater.5 The collaborative effort of
Satie, Cocteau, and Picasso reveals further aspects of simultaneity and reflects the artistic
3 Volta, 93.
4 Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 234-35.
* Glenn Watkins, Pyramids at the Louvre: Music, Culture, and Collage from Stravinsky to the
Postmodernists (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994), 257.
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Beard, Cynthia C. Beyond the Human Voice: Francis Poulenc's Psychological Drama La Voix humaine (1958), thesis, May 2000; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2543/m1/11/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .