ABSTRACT

CR: Last time, you spoke to us about what I could call your ‘fauve’ period, or to be more precise, the beginnings of your ‘fauve’ period, the heroic era of Les Six which was thought to be a deliberate plot, but which was really no more than a series of what are called ‘chain reactions’, of the sort that occur in a timely and useful manner throughout the history of music. But might the ‘fauve’ be a close relation of the ‘dandy’… at that period, as in the time of Balzac when dandies were known as ‘lions’?