Tag: Les Biches

• Les six

  November 17, 2014

  Ballet, Dance, Orchestral

  Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Le Train Bleu, Les Biches, Les Six

  When the Russians (Stravinsky, Prokofiev) got too famous and so too expensive, Diaghilev commissioned his new ballets from the younger – and therefore cheaper – generation of French composers. A group of young musicians had formed around the wonderfully eccentric figure of Erik Satie. Originally named (by Satie)  Les Nouveaux Jeunes they soon became known as…