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...steeple jack's scaffolding set against the vertical face of Mt. Behistun, in Persia, the University of Chicago's Dr. George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda...
Milhaud: Symphony No. 1 (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). France's Composer Milhaud, like Brahms, waited until he was past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...
...podium in front of Toscanini's own NBC Symphony, to guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
Harvard Medley, by Anderson: "Suite Francaise," by Darius Milhand; Yale Medley, by Anderson; "Pavanne," by Morton Gould, "March," Op. 99, by Serge Prokefieff...
...Darius Milhaud's "Suite Francaise," written to commemorate the liberation of France by the underground and the Allied armies, will feature the program, and a short dance by Shostakovitch, Prokofieff's Opus 99 "March," and F. W. Meacham's well-known "American patrol" complete the band's emergence as a primarily musical group...