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24-464: Arthur Gold may refer to: Arthur Gold (pianist) (1917–1990), American pianist, author and television presenter Sir Arthur Gold (sports administrator) (1917–2001), British Olympic sports administrator See also [ edit ] Artur Gold (1897–1943), Polish violinist and composer Artie Gold (1947–2007), Canadian poet Arthur Gould (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

48-446: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt " (Knopf 1991). The duo also began writing food articles for Vogue magazine and began a television cooking show. In 1984 they published "The Gold and Fizdale Cookbook" (Random House 1984), which is dedicated to their friend George Balanchine , "In whose kitchen we spent many happy hours..." In 1996, after the death of Fizdale, his estate donated the personal papers, recordings and other memorabilia to

72-592: A commission which was paid by their mutual friend the American Soprano and arts patron Alice Swanson Esty , according to Poulenc's correspondence. The duo also recorded a number of recordings featuring works by Les six, Vittorio Rieti , and other composers, as well as a series of Concerto recordings with Leonard Bernstein and The New York Philharmonic , including the Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos, The Mozart Two Piano Concerto and Saint-Saëns's "Carnival of

96-760: A four-hands version of Thomson's score. Tailleferre invited the couple to her home in Grasse to spend two months while she was writing her ballet Paris-Magie and her opera Il était Un Petit Navire . She wrote two-piano versions of both works and gave them to the duo as a gift. These manuscripts were later donated to the Library of Congress after the death of Robert Fizdale. Tailleferre later dedicated two other works to Gold and Fizdale: her Toccata for Two Pianos and her Sonata for Two Pianos . Francis Poulenc also wrote his own Sonata for Two Pianos for "the Boyz" (as he called them),

120-402: A group of composers around himself to be known as Les nouveaux jeunes , forerunners of Les Six . According to Milhaud: [Collet] chose six names absolutely arbitrarily, those of Auric, Durey, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and me simply because we knew each other and we were pals and appeared on the same musical programmes, no matter if our temperaments and personalities weren't at all

144-543: A letter of introduction from Marcelle de Manziarly to Germaine Tailleferre of Les six who invited them to a lunch with Francis Poulenc and Georges Auric . This lunch ended with Auric and Tailleferre taking the score of Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", which Thomson had given as a gift, turning it upside down on the piano and having Poulenc singing all of the roles (including Susan B. Anthony ) in nonsense English syllables which were supposedly an imitation of Gertrude Stein 's Libretto while Tailleferre and Auric improvised

168-400: A suite of songs for baritone or bass and piano on words of Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin in commemoration of the centenary of the death of Frédéric Chopin. In 1952, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and three other composers collaborated on an orchestral work called La Guirlande de Campra . In 1956, Auric, Milhaud, Poulenc and five other composers created an orchestral suite in honour of

192-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arthur Gold (pianist) Gold and Fizdale met during their student years at the Juilliard School ; where Gold was a pupil of Rosina Lhévinne and her husband Josef and Fizdale was a pupil of Ernest Hutcheson . They formed a lifelong gay partnership and shared interests in music (forming one of

216-533: Is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the Impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel . The members were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983). In 1917, when many theatres and concert halls were closed because of World War I , Blaise Cendrars and

240-507: The Nouveaux jeunes less than a year after starting the group, was the "gift from heaven" that made it all come true for Cocteau: his 1918 publication, Le Coq et l'Arlequin , is said to have kicked it off. After World War I , Jean Cocteau and Les Six began to frequent a bar known as "La Gaya" which became Le Bœuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof) when the establishment moved to larger quarters. As

264-536: The Animals". Bobby Fizdale was born Robert Fish, the son of John and Rose Fish of Chicago. Had a brother Walter. Both Gold and Fizdale were of Russian Jewish descent. In the late 1970s, Arthur Gold began to have problems with his hands which made it difficult for him to perform, so the duo began to write biographical works, including "Misia: the Life of Misia Sert " (Knopf; 1st edition January 12, 1980), and "The Divine Sarah:

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288-807: The Juilliard School, where they are kept in the school's Peter Jay Sharp Special Collections Room in the Juilliard Library Gold and Fizdale are buried alongside each other at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor, New York. Les six " Les Six " ( French: [le sis] ) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse . The name has its origins in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia (see Bibliography ). Their music

312-477: The famous ballet by Milhaud had been conceived at the old premises, the new bar took on the name of Milhaud's ballet . On the renamed bar's opening night, pianist Jean Wiéner played tunes by George Gershwin and Vincent Youmans while Cocteau and Milhaud played percussion. Among those in attendance were impresario Serge Diaghilev , artist Pablo Picasso , filmmaker René Clair , singer Jane Bathori , and actor and singer Maurice Chevalier . Another frequent guest

336-530: The field of jazz they have collaborated with Dave Brubeck. Among their friends were American literary and cultural figures such as Truman Capote , James Schuyler , George Balanchine , Jerome Robbins , among others. In 1948, they were part of the wave of American artists, musicians and writers who took advantage of the first possibility since the end of World War II to freely travel in Europe. They arrived in Paris with

360-451: The group also participated. Auric and Poulenc were involved in all six of these collaborations, Milhaud in five, Honegger and Tailleferre in three, but Durey in only one. In 1920 the group published an album of piano pieces together, known as L'Album des Six . This was the only work in which all six composers collaborated. In 1921, five of the members jointly composed the music for Cocteau's ballet Les mariés de la tour Eiffel , which

384-497: The most important piano duos of the 20th century), travel, and cooking. Gold and Fizdale made their professional debut in 1944 at the New School for Social Research performing a program of 20th century music that included the world premieres of John Cage ’s A Book of Music (one of Cage's earliest experiments in using the prepared Piano) and Cage's Three Dances (first version) for two prepared pianos, both composed for them. This

408-591: The other hand had a deep-seated scorn for Satie , whom Auric, Milhaud and I adored. But, that is only one reading of how the Groupe des Six originated. Other authors, like Ornella Volta , stressed the manoeuvrings of Jean Cocteau to become the leader of an avant-garde group devoted to music, like the cubist and surrealist groups which had sprung up in visual arts and literature shortly before, with Pablo Picasso , Guillaume Apollinaire , and André Breton as their key representatives. The fact that Satie had abandoned

432-405: The painter Moïse Kisling decided to put on concerts at 6 rue Huyghens  [ fr ] , the studio of the painter Émile Lejeune (1885–1964). For the first of these events, the walls of the studio were decorated with canvases by Picasso , Matisse , Léger , Modigliani , and others. Music by Erik Satie , Honegger, Auric, and Durey was played. This concert gave Satie the idea of assembling

456-405: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Gold&oldid=1256642214 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

480-437: The same! Auric and Poulenc followed ideas of Cocteau, Honegger followed German Romanticism, and myself, Mediterranean lyricism! And according to Poulenc: The diversity of our music, of our tastes and distastes, precluded any common aesthetic. What could be more different than the music of Honegger and Auric? Milhaud admired Magnard , I did not; neither of us liked Florent Schmitt , whom Honegger respected; Arthur [Honegger] on

504-450: Was in the repertoire of the Ballets suédois throughout the 1920s. In 1927, Auric, Milhaud and Poulenc, along with seven other composers who were not part of Les Six, jointly composed the children's ballet L'éventail de Jeanne . In 1949, Auric, Milhaud and Poulenc, along with three other composers, jointly wrote Mouvements du coeur: Un hommage à la mémoire de Frédéric Chopin , 1810–1849 ,

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528-592: Was produced by the Ballets suédois , the rival to the Ballets Russes. Cocteau had originally proposed the project to Auric, but as Auric did not finish rapidly enough to fit into the rehearsal schedule, he then divided the work up among the other members of Les Six. Durey, who was not in Paris at the time, chose not to participate. The première was the occasion of a public scandal rivalling that of Le sacre du printemps in 1913. In spite of this, Les mariés de la tour Eiffel

552-410: Was the first of several commissions from American and French composers premièred by the piano duo in the second half of the 20th century. Some of the other composers from whom they commissioned works include Georges Auric , Samuel Barber , Howard Brubeck , Paul Bowles , Darius Milhaud , Francis Poulenc , Vittorio Rieti , Henri Sauguet , Germaine Tailleferre , Virgil Thomson , and Ned Rorem . In

576-449: Was the young American composer Virgil Thomson whose compositions in subsequent years were influenced by members of Les Six. Although the group did not exist to work on compositions collaboratively , there were six occasions, spread over 36 years, on which at least some members of the group did work together on the same project. On only one of these occasions was the entire Groupe des Six involved; in some others, composers from outside

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