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Doris (Dotty) Todd, a concert pianist and singer who with her husband, Art, had one of the biggest hits of 1958 with "Chanson d'Amour (Song of Love)," died on Tuesday here.
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Later there came an infatuation with French chanson, and later still a fascination with Mexican funeral bands and electronic music.
That was Verlaine's job, with the Chanson d'Automne.
When I visited on a freezing evening in January, there were 20 people seated around patterned banquettes and tables with French chanson music wafting from the speakers.
The result was often a kind of international style, greatly influenced by Orlando di Lasso, who was as much at home writing Italian madrigals as he was with French chanson and German lieder.
Chapman elaborated on this connection in 1921: "There can be no question but that a learned man like Ordóñez de Montalvo was familiar with the Chanson de Roland ...This derivation of the word 'California' can perhaps never be proved, but it is too plausible and it may be added too interesting to be overlooked".
Problems of attribution are even more acute with the chansons than they are with other portions of his output: while about 70 three and four-voice chansons were published under his name during his lifetime, only six of the more than thirty five- and six-voice chansons attributed to him were circulated under his name during the same time.
What happens when you transplant the French chanson with the Philly sound?
Dawson, a true vaudevillian, tells me he used to actually hum along with the Scots' chanson de coeur.
The canzona followed the same structural principle but was a lively counterpart to the chanson, with the sections sometimes in contrasting tempo and metre.
According to the program, Michael "performs in French, German, Swiss German, English, or Italian and mixes pop, jazz, folk and rock with traditional French chanson.
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