Aoua! méfiez-vous des blancs

Aoua! méfiez-vous des blancs (FR) Aoua! Don't Trust the Whites. Ravel's setting (1925 / 26, Chansons madécasses #2) for voice, flute, cello, and piano of the fifth poem from Chansons madécasses (Madagascar Folksongs, 1787) by Parny. »Aoua!« was the first song of the three completed. At its premiere (without the other two songs, as yet uncompleted), a minor French composer, Léon Moreau (1870 – 1946, [Prix de Rome, 1899]), got up and shouted that he was leaving the hall, that it was disgraceful…