Adelina à la promenade

Adelina à la promenade (FR) Adelina Taking a Walk. Poulenc's setting (1947, Trois Chansons de F. Garcia-Lorca #2) for voice and piano of a translation of »Adelina de paseo,« the second poem in the »Andaluzas« section of Canciones (Songs, 1921 / 24) by Lorca. The translation is probably by Pierre Darmangeat (1909–UNK), a noted French Lorca scholar who translated many of his poems for the Gallimard publishing house. The poem was written on 19 July 1924, in memory of José de Ciria y Escalante…