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...program with the singers will be two-piano pieces by Darius Milhaud and Theodore Chanler and the four-hand sonata by Hindesmith, while the group will conclude the concert with the first American presentation of the cantata "Secheresses" by Francis Poulenc...
...Aaron Copland was born four years later. In 1928 the two composers sponsored a Copland-Sessions concert series for contemporary music. During the past two years, Sessions has taught composition at the University of California along with his onetime teacher, Composer Ernest Bloch, and often visits France's Darius Milhaud, who teaches at nearby Mills College. In this stimulating atmosphere he has half-finished a third symphony and has begun a four-act opera called Montezuma. He started the Roosevelt symphony in 1944 at Princeton, was on the third movement (adagio) when Roosevelt died. After listening to Monteux play...
...conductor was so stiff with arthritis that he had to lead the orchestra sitting down. France's No. 1 composer, chunky little Darius Milhaud, climbed carefully into a chair raised a foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...
Milhaud: Suite Franchise (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Light-hearted folk tunes from five French provinces which homesick Exile Milhaud first put together during the war for Edwin Franko Goldman's brass band. Performance: good...
Since the days of Darius and Cyrus, the kingdom had descended far. It was still large (a fifth as big as the U.S.) and its mountains and desert contrasts were still dramatically scenic. But of Mohamed Reza's 15 million subjects a few thousand lived in lavish luxury, and almost all the rest in ragged poverty. At least eleven million of them had venereal disease. Most of the adults were opium addicts. Four out of every five children born died in infancy. Three out of every four who survived never learned to read or write...