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Deems Taylor, clever American musicmaker, has written a score for the cinema (TIME, Aug. 4). The innovation has been duplicated in France; Darius Milhaud, one of the leaders of Paris's younger set of tonal wits, has composed the musical accompaniment to the new picture L'lnhumaine, which features Mme. Georgette Leblanc...
...Darius has defended his new venture as follows: "The cinema interests the musician through its rhythmic life, full of an intensity and a complexity, which in the picture L'lnhumaine becomes mysterious and spiritual. The poetry of machines is effectively interpreted through fantasy and an absolutely new technique. Much research and work has made this film the achievement of a poet. It is an artistic effort which has, at last, been realized; and the cinema becomes, as Jean Cocteau says, 'the tenth muse...
From Paris, a traveler returned to tell that the famous "Six" has dissolved. This sacred band has been killed by prosperity. For several years it played the drum and bugle of propaganda for its output of composition, but now its members, or several of them, have reaped consequent benefits. Darius Milhaud, in particular, has come to success. Therefore, they do not have to hang together, since there is no immediate likelihood of their hanging separately. They, or the more prosperous of them, have gone their own way. But the indomitable Eric Satie (who founded the "Six") has formed...
...performances (TIME, Dec. 10). It presented its full display of ear shockers and brain perplexers, including the fearsome Sacre du Printemps, music by Stravinsky. It went in uncompromisingly for musical modernism, with especial emphasis on the works of the famous "Six" of Paris, those bold youths who, headed by Darius Milhaud, have devoted their ingenuities to baiting the conservatives. In Paris, the performances given by the Swedish troupe were extravagantly loved and hated. The violent discussions and even disturbances attracted the curious. But in New York, despite the celebrity that followed the organization, it failed to attract the public. Houses...
...Desire is a nuptial scenario by Paul Claudel with music by the unbalanced Darius Milhaud. Its climax comes when a woman unwinds herself from some chiffon...