Arthur Honegger was a member of Les Six, a club founded by Jean Cocteau, whose individual members (including Honegger, Milhaud and Poulenc were the most important) but otherwise had little in common. One of Honegger's most famous work is the modern-mechanical Pacific 231, in which the dynamics of a Delayed locomotive is depicted. More personally committed the Third Symphony, nicknamed Liturgique
… which Honegger could express precisely his dislike of modern, mechanized world. Impressive is Une Cantate de Noël, where a potpourri of carols breaks through the darkness. (HJ)more
