Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword, by Jesse Eschbach
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader on Terminology
- Introduction
- Chapter One Duruflé's Childhood and Early Education
- Chapter Two Life at the Cathedral Choir School
- Chapter Three Lessons with Charles Tournemire
- Chapter Four Lessons with Louis Vierne
- Chapter Five The Conservatoire Student
- Chapter Six Duruflé's Distinctions
- Chapter Seven The Contested Successions at Notre-Dame and Sainte Clotilde
- Chapter Eight Duruflé's Performing Career
- Chapter Nine The Orchestral Musician
- Chapter Ten The Orchestral Musician
- Chapter Eleven Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire
- Chapter Twelve Marie-Madeleine Chevalier
- Chapter Thirteen Marie-Madeleine Chevalier
- Chapter Fourteen Duruflé's Compositions: Their Genesis and First Performances
- Chapter Fifteen Duruflé's Role in the Plainsong Revival
- Chapter Sixteen The Vichy Commissions
- Chapter Seventeen The Requiem
- Chapter Eighteen The Musical History of Saint Étienne-du-Mont
- Chapter Nineteen The Organs at Saint Étienne-du-Mont
- Chapter Twenty Duruflé as Organist and Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-One Duruflé and Organ Design
- Chapter Twenty-Two The Church in Transition
- Chapter Twenty-Three The North American Tours
- Chapter Twenty-Four The Man Duruflé
- Appendix A Maurice Duruflé
- Appendix B Discography
- Appendix C Stoplists of Organs Important to the Careers of Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
Chapter Twenty-Three - The North American Tours
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword, by Jesse Eschbach
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader on Terminology
- Introduction
- Chapter One Duruflé's Childhood and Early Education
- Chapter Two Life at the Cathedral Choir School
- Chapter Three Lessons with Charles Tournemire
- Chapter Four Lessons with Louis Vierne
- Chapter Five The Conservatoire Student
- Chapter Six Duruflé's Distinctions
- Chapter Seven The Contested Successions at Notre-Dame and Sainte Clotilde
- Chapter Eight Duruflé's Performing Career
- Chapter Nine The Orchestral Musician
- Chapter Ten The Orchestral Musician
- Chapter Eleven Professor of Harmony at the Paris Conservatoire
- Chapter Twelve Marie-Madeleine Chevalier
- Chapter Thirteen Marie-Madeleine Chevalier
- Chapter Fourteen Duruflé's Compositions: Their Genesis and First Performances
- Chapter Fifteen Duruflé's Role in the Plainsong Revival
- Chapter Sixteen The Vichy Commissions
- Chapter Seventeen The Requiem
- Chapter Eighteen The Musical History of Saint Étienne-du-Mont
- Chapter Nineteen The Organs at Saint Étienne-du-Mont
- Chapter Twenty Duruflé as Organist and Teacher
- Chapter Twenty-One Duruflé and Organ Design
- Chapter Twenty-Two The Church in Transition
- Chapter Twenty-Three The North American Tours
- Chapter Twenty-Four The Man Duruflé
- Appendix A Maurice Duruflé
- Appendix B Discography
- Appendix C Stoplists of Organs Important to the Careers of Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
Summary
Duruflé began touring when he was about twenty years old. While his earliest tours took him to Normandy and later to the Côte d’Azur, he eventually concertized in England, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Spain, North Africa, the former Soviet Union (USSR), Canada, and the United States.
Duruflé made his first trip to England to perform for the Organ Music Society in 1938, and returned under their aegis in September 1949. After his marriage to Marie-Madeleine Chevalier, in 1953, he shared many of his tours with her. In 1968 he conducted “Cum jubilo” in London, and in 1969 and 1970 he and Mme Duruflé played joint recitals in the Royal Festival Hall. In 1970 they also performed at Chester Cathedral. In the same year, Mme Duruflé played Vierne's Third Symphony at Westminster Abbey as part of a series that featured the complete symphonies of Vierne in observance of the centenary of the composer's birth. In 1971 the couple performed at King's College, Cambridge, then again at Royal Festival Hall, this time for a performance of the Requiem presented by the London Bach Choir and the New Philharmonia Orchestra on February 5, with David Willcocks conducting and Mme Duruflé playing the organ.
In North Africa the couple performed at the Tunis cathedral (1954), and at Rabat and Casablanca (1958). They subsequently made two tours of the Soviet Union, in 1965 and 1970. On their first tour, from November 11 to 29, which was arranged through the Service des relations culturelles de Paris, they played seven recitals to capacity audiences, appearing in Moscow and Leningrad (Russia), at the Riga Dom (Latvia), at Philharmonic Hall in Tallinn (Estonia), and in Baku (Azerbaijan).
A review of their performance on the Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Bolshoi Conservatory appeared in the journal Sovetskaya Muzyka, the reviewer noting that the arrival of the couple was anticipated with much excitement. The titles of all the pieces printed in their programs “had been ‘purged’ by the soviets of all religious allusions,” so that Variations sur un noël became “Variations sur un thème populaire.”
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- Maurice DurufléThe Man and His Music, pp. 228 - 237Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007