Allons plus vite

Allons plus vite (FR) Let's Go Faster. Poulenc's setting (1938, Deux Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire #2) for baritone voice and piano of a poem by Apollinaire first published in Nord-Sud (North-South) on 15 May 1917, then in Il y a (There Is, 1925, posth.). The periodical Nord-Sud was named for a principal line of the Paris Métro, connecting Montmartre in the north with Montparnasse in the south. The poem reflects Apollinaire's attitudes about the Parisian feminist, labor, and anti-war…