Word: darius
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...faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...
Ancient History: As early as the 15th century B.C., Greeks settled Cyprus, came in successive waves for hundreds of years. A much-badgered pawn of empires, Cyprus was conquered by Sargon II, and Darius before Alexander the Great captured it m 333 B.C. Later it became Roman. But for centuries after the division of the Roman Empire, Cyprus was subject chiefly to the rule of the Byzantine Empire, which was culturally if not politically Greek. The Ottoman Turks, who conquered Constantinople in 1453, began their 300-year rule of Cyprus in 1570-71. Greece, itself conquered by the Ottomans...
Chicago music lovers got a treat last week: the first U.S. performance of Symphony No. 7 by Darius Milhaud (pronounced me-lo). Performed with clarity and spirit by Conductor Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, it turned out to be one of Milhaud's most appealing works...
...Gregorian chant and spent much time at Solesmes. There are several groups in this country dedicated to the revival of the chant, and one of them is my own choir, which consists of ecclesiastical students for the priesthood from the seminary which is attached to our abbey. Darius Milhaud has become so interested in our attempt to revive the chant that he has composed Trots Psaumes de David for my choir. This composition is the setting to music of several of the Psalms. He employs the unique technique of permitting the odd verses of each psalm to remain...
...pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...