Les Gars qui vont à la fête

Les Gars qui vont à la fête (FR) The Boys Who Go to the Fair. Pou-lenc's setting (1942, Chansons villageoises #2) for voice and orchestra (or piano) of the second poem in the »Chansons de la petite terre« (Songs of the Little Earth) subsection of the »Chansons de la Grand Hune« (Songs of the Great Watchtower) section of the volume A Dos d'oiseau (Bird's-Eye View, 1945) by Fombeure. Poulenc writes: »For the words »le piston, la clarinette« I like the orchestral tutti for its vulgar aroma of…