Recorded Personalities In Caricature (7)
WHO IS HE?-All we hear and read of this remarkable man reminds us of Puck. He displayed marked musical gifts as a boy. He was destined for a solo pianist’s career, but he soon proved he was unique among creators of music. But his irrepressible _ spirits brought him into conflict with authority, and his revolutionary musical ideas were disliked by the official big-wigs. Even when he competed for the " Prix-de-Rome" in 1901, he played a joke which lost him the coveted honour by treating the subject " Myrrha" as an operetta instead of a cantata. Failing to appreciate the joke, the examiners awarded him Second Prize. He was full of parlour tricks. One, " The Sea-sick Chinaman,’ performed with a napkin and an orange, delighted youngsters but made hostesses furious — it wasted too many oranges. This composer gathered around him a circle of poets, painters and musicians, who read poetry and talked music by the hour. Members of that circle have since added their names to the soroll of fame. In an emergency he once produced five superb songs within thirty-six hours to supplied text to illustrate a lecture by M. Calvocoressi. He is best known by a fascinating piece in the Spanish rhythm. Who is this daring "enfant terrible" of French music?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 35, 23 February 1940, Page 19
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