Null [Roger DÉSORMIÈRE]. Menu signed and dedicated by 16 personalities of the mu…

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[Roger DÉSORMIÈRE]. Menu signed and dedicated by 16 personalities of the musical world, February 16, 1942; 4 pages in-8, illustration by Paul Colin. Banquet for the release of the mythical recording of Pelléas et Mélisande. Lunch offered by Pathé-Marconi at Maxim's for the release of Pelléas conducted by Roger Désormière, with dedications to the conductor by the performers of the record, singers of the creation, composers: Paul Cabanel, Claude Delvincourt, Henri Etcheverry, Jacques Jansen, Jean Bérard, Louis Beydts, Leïla Ben Sedira, Germaine Cernay, Gustave Samazeuilh, Jean Périer, Hector Dufranne Attached are 3 business cards by Jean Bérard and Mme de Tinan.

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[Roger DÉSORMIÈRE]. Menu signed and dedicated by 16 personalities of the musical world, February 16, 1942; 4 pages in-8, illustration by Paul Colin. Banquet for the release of the mythical recording of Pelléas et Mélisande. Lunch offered by Pathé-Marconi at Maxim's for the release of Pelléas conducted by Roger Désormière, with dedications to the conductor by the performers of the record, singers of the creation, composers: Paul Cabanel, Claude Delvincourt, Henri Etcheverry, Jacques Jansen, Jean Bérard, Louis Beydts, Leïla Ben Sedira, Germaine Cernay, Gustave Samazeuilh, Jean Périer, Hector Dufranne Attached are 3 business cards by Jean Bérard and Mme de Tinan.

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Roger FAURE (1899-1940) architect. 45 L.A.S. (mostly "Roger"), 1930-1939, to Colette Steinlen (Mme D.-E. Inghelbrecht, then Mme Roger Désormière) and Roger Désormière; plus 11 L.A.S. (and 3 fragments) from Colette Steinlen and 2 L.A.S. from Roger Désormière to Roger Faure; approx. 133pages in various formats, mostly in-4. Beautiful, long, friendly and musical correspondence.The architect Roger Faure, who died for France in 1940, was a great friend of Colette Steinlen and the musicians, as evidenced by this rich correspondence, often addressed to Colette and Déso. He recalls their group of friends: Igor Markevitch (who adds a few lines on one letter), Henri Sauguet, Darius Milhaud, dancer and choreographer Léonide Massine, etc; Colette's home in Jouy-la-Fontaine, vacations at La Roche aux Moines near Savennières, Désormière's music and his work as an orchestra conductor (notably for film scores), their passion for nature and literature, and his service in a French army heavy artillery regiment, particularly at the end of 1939. We'll quote just a few of these beautiful letters: "My dear Colette, just a word of affection because I'm thinking too much of you. I'm turning over sad things in my head. Your double sorrow: that you are no happier, and that you feel fiercely unhappy with Déso whom you love [...] I think of your solitude and how your thoughts always come up against the mystery of Déso's isolation [...] grappling with strange contradictions [...] I doubt anyone would dare attack his isolation." (Faure to Colette, March 13, 1931). -I've been thinking a lot about Déso lately. The prosecution of the Communists - or rather everything that preceded it - must have been a painful experience for him. [...] The destruction of what one has loved and sought to serve must be a terrible ordeal - for a heart like his"... (Faure to Colette, October 2, 1939). - "The description of your country life is charming, which doesn't prevent me, however, from wishing it would end (not the description, the life - what a misery for me this blur with syntax), I need your presence too much, firstly out of affection and then also for the movement you bring to life, now that's a statement not lacking in cynicism. I belong to the parasitic race, the one that lives off what others bring, and left to my own devices I become a marmot. That's what I'm doing right now. Perhaps you didn't know that yet. Helleu, the bookseller on boulevard St Germain, has organized a small Steinlen exhibition for which he has collected works relating to Paris [...] meanwhile, poor Déso, already completely exhausted, was spending ten hours in the studio. What a week it was for him - days and half-nights sitting at a table, orchestrating other people's music, it's quite a job [...]. Fortunately, this week will be less busy, with the Wiener orchestration finished and recorded yesterday, leaving Madame Bovary and two sessions for Lac aux Dames". (Colette to R. Faure. December 6 1933). - I have nothing definite for this winter, Wiéner has given me hope, Vandal, of the firm Vandal et Delac, for whom I made 2 films this winter: Poil de carotte and L'Homme à l'Hispano having spoken of me in what seems to be enthusiastic terms at Fox [...] Bunuel has not been able to free himself from his work and we are going to give up, I think, the tour in Auvergne and the Midi that we had planned together"... (Désormière to R. Faure, Vichy. Faure, Vichy [1932]).Enclosed is a typed copy of a letter from Faure to his mother (May 19, 1940, eight days before his death at the front.

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