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...long time, I have had the idea of writing a composition fit for high school purposes and this was the result," Darius Milhaud said of his Suite Francaise (1945), his first extended work for winds. Milhaud's suite is written in five parts, named after French provinces in which the Allies and the French underground fought together against "the German invaders, who in less than seventy years have brought war, destruction, cruelty, torture and murder," as Milhaud wrote...
...intriguing possibility: the waterway may have split in two, one branch following a great east-west depression called Wadi Tumilat to link with the Nile, the other continuing south into the Red Sea along a route that became part of a canal system later built by the Persian conqueror Darius...
...nation placed by God and geography on the outskirts of the world's great central empires. Rising from the Human and Hittite tribes of the Euphrates, the Armenians enjoyed a brief spring as soldiers and artisans, then sank into the shadows of barbarian tribes and civilized conquerors from Darius the Great to the Young Turks of this century. The Armenians had made two crucial wagers: on Christianity and the growing power of Europe. But the gamblers, observes their chronicler, "had been in the wrong part of the world to make these bets-or at any rate to hope...
September 15: Ford plays golf with Melvin Laird, former Republican congressman Jack Westland, and his friend Darius "Deke" Keatch, president of Trucker Oil Trade, Inc. He attends church. Later he greets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...Died. Darius Milhaud, 81, French composer of some 450 symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos and other works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout...