Elizabeth Watts * Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works [New CD] Machine Greeting Blue 5 Lied / Song

5 Lied / Song

the next moment sees the band vamping into extended passages

Let the Big Dog Eat

Translucent Ruby Colored

Elizabeth Watts * Mel Bonis: Orchestral Works [New CD] Machine Greeting Blue 5 Lied / SongMel (Melanie Helne) Bonis was born in Paris in 1858, and showed a prodigious talent for music from an early age, attending the Paris Conservatoire from the age of sixteen, studying alongside Debussy and Pierne under Cesar Franck. Her passionate relationship with the singer Amedee Louis Hettich was frowned upon by her parents, who pressured her to marry edouard Domange, a twice widowed industrialist with five children. Bonis threw herself into her role