Plume d'eau claire

Plume d'eau claire (FR) Jet of Clear Water. Poulenc's setting (1935, Cinq Poèmes de Paul Eluard #3) for voice and piano of a poem by Eluard from A toute épreuve (Total Resistance, 1930). The poem was written in 1929, inspired by Alice Apfel (UNK), wife of a Communist lawyer. Eluard met Apfel in Berlin and called her »La Pomme« (The Apple [Ger. Apfel]). The words form the 7th section of the poem »L'Univers-solitude« (Universe-Solitude). The poem was also included in a letter from Eluard to Gala…