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...written distinguished film music. Some composers have used films as the inspiration for music that has become part of the concert repertory, e.g., Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky and Lieutenant Kije, Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story. *The others: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey...
...Milhaud, Durey, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre...
...Paris, music, like politics, nearly foundered in a sea of talk. Talkiest was a group called "The Six." "The Six" talked more than they composed, got the Left Bank dizzy with conversation. As the years passed the one woman member of "The Six," GermaineTailleferre,got married; another member, Louis Durey, gave up both composing and talking. But two of them actually got around to a large batch of serious composing. One of these was a Swiss, Arthur Honegger-famed for his symphonic imitation of a train (Pacific 231)-the other was Darius Milhaud who, in 1921, scandalized Paris by setting...
...Characters in Strange Interlude spoke their thoughts in monotones easily distinguished from their actual conversation. ?The rest of the Six: Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Louis Durey...
...best performances were made by W. W. Coe of the Boston Athletic Association, who won the shot-put from scratch with a distance of 44 feet, 5 inches; by H. M. Durey of North Cambridge who won the 440-yard run in 56 2-5 seconds; and by H. A. Gidney of the Boston Athletic Association, who was second in the high jump with an actual jump of 5 feet, 11 inches...
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