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Et puis ce soir on s'en ira Au cinéma Les Artistes que sont-ce donc Ce ne sont plus ceux qui cultivent les Beaux-arts Ce ne sont pas ceux qui s'occupent de l'Art Art poétique ou bien musique Les Artistes ce sont les acteurs et les actrices Si nous étions des Artistes Nous ne dirions pas le cinéma Nous dirions le ciné Mais si nous étions de vieux professeurs de province Nous ne dirions ni ciné ni cinéma Mais cinématographe Aussi mon Dieu faut-il avoir du goût.
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Avant le cinéma", written 1917, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Avant le Cinéma", FP 58 no. 3 (1931) [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Abans del cinema", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Derek Welton) , "Before the cinema", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "Before the cinema", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 86
And then this evening we will go To the cinema The Artists, what kind are they? They are no longer those who cultivate the Fine Arts They are no longer those who deal in art Poetic art or fine music The Artists are the actors and actresses If we were the Artists We would not say "the cinema” We would say "le ciné" But if we were old provincial professors We would say neither “ciné” nor “cinema" But cinematography Well my goodness, we must have good taste!
This song was dedicated to Olga Khoklova, AKA the first Mrs. Pablo Picasso (1891-1955), who was a Russian ballet dancer.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Stanfield Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Avant le cinéma", written 1917, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
This text was added to the website: 2016-04-10
Line count: 14
Word count: 87