Chanson d'Orkenise

Chanson d'Orkenise (FR) Song of Orkenise. Poulenc's setting (1940, Banalités #1) for voice and piano of a poem by Apollinaire. The poem is inserted in the middle of a surreal prose piece from 1908 called »Onirocritique« (The ability to interpret dreams) that contains many mingling images of man and woman. Orkenise is the imaginary city that beckons the narrator and his companion(s). The poem is the »song of the cultivated fields.« »Onirocritique« was first published in La Phalange on 15…