La Sauterelle

La Sauterelle (FR) The Grasshopper. Poulenc's setting (Le Bestiaire #3) for voice and small instrumental band, (or piano) of the 17th poem from Le Bestiaire (1911) by Apollinaire. In Apollinaire's own notes to Le Bestiaire, he places a quote from the Bible, Gospel according to Mark, chapter 1, v. 6: »Et erat Joannes vestitus pilis cameli, et zona pellicea, circa lumbos ejus, et locustas, et mel silvestre edebat.« (And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of skin about his…