The Miusic Treasury Archive

The Music Treasury for 31 March 2019 — Roger Désormière, Conductor

by Audiophile Audition | Mar 29, 2019 | Streams and Podcasts

The French conductor Roger Désormière is featured on this week’s episode of The Music Treasury.  Hosted by Dr Gary Lemco, the show will feature works by Campra, Saint-Saens, Durufle, Delalande, Debussy, and Bartok.  The show airs from 19:00 to 21:00 from Stanford University’s KZSU, with concurrent streaming: ulive.stanford.edu Roger Désormière, Conductor, Part I Désormière was born in Vichy in 1898. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his professors included Philippe Gaubert (flute), Xavier Leroux and Charles Koechlin (composition), and Vincent d’Indy (conducting). In 1922 he won the Prix Blumenthal and in 1923 became part of the Ecole d’Arcueil. Désormière’s early conducting experience was largely with the Ballets suédois and Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. He was conductor of the Ballets suédois’s premiere of elâche (1924), a film and music presentation by Francis Picabia and Erik Satie, with the film segment, Entr’acte, directed by René Clair. He then worked for the Diaghilev company from 1925 until the impresario’s death, conducting the premieres of Barabau by Vittorio Rieti, The Prodigal Son and Le pas d’acier by Sergei Prokofiev, and La Chatte by Henri Sauguet. >From 1932 he became involved in music for films with Pathé-Nathan, composing music for La Règle du jeu, Le Mariage de […]