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COLETTE AS MUSIC CRITIC

on BBC Radio 3

by EDWARD LOCKSPEISER
Though Colette is widely read, few people know that she was a discerning and original music critic Her weekly articles in Gil Bias in 1903 were designed to offset another series in the same paper by Debussy. She also wrote remarkable pen portraits of Debussy, Ravel, Faure, and Poulene. followed by an interlude at 10.55

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