\u201cMa musique est mon portrait.” In 1943, an aircraft dropped thousands of copies of Paul \u00c9luard’s poem Libert\u00e9 over occupied France. In secret, Francis Poulenc composed his cantata Figure Humaine, a powerful ode to liberation. In 1946, the choir of the public broadcaster NIR \u2014 the predecessor of the Vlaams Radiokoor \u2014 premiered this cantata during a special broadcast on \u2018Sender Br\u00fcssel,\u2019 which had just been liberated from Nazi control. Exactly 80 years later, the Vlaams Radiokoor performs the work once again in the very place it was created: the former broadcasting house, Flagey. The audience is invited to join the performers on the stage of the iconic Studio 4 for a unique and intimate musical portrait of Francis Poulenc \u2014 \u2018Poupoule\u2019 to his friends. Together with I SOLISTI, the Radiokoor introduces you to the man himself: his kaleidoscopic oeuvre, his colorful personality, and his many unexpected musical ties to Belgium. All of this topped off with his wonderfully surrealist Le Bal Masqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cMa musique est mon portrait.” In 1943, an aircraft dropped thousands of copies of Paul \u00c9luard’s poem Libert\u00e9 over occupied France. In secret, Francis Poulenc composed his cantata Figure Humaine, a powerful ode to liberation. In 1946, the choir of the public broadcaster NIR \u2014 the predecessor of the Vlaams Radiokoor \u2014 premiered this cantata […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1939705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n