Word: milhaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Darius Milhaud...
...Milhaud: La Création du Monde (the Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Composer Milhaud made two trips to the U.S. in the early '20s, and went back to Paris jumping with jazz. In this score for a Ballet Négre (1923), he proves that he caught the inflection better than many a serious U.S. composer has yet. The performance (with Benny Goodman taking the solo clarinet part) is in the groove. Recording: good...
Imagine that you are in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art one Windy surrealistic night as the paintings and mobiles inside come to life and start moving about you in the darkness; the wind rises and falls as if orchestrated by Darius Milhaud or Paul Bowles; and a series of characters ready for the psychiatrist's couch wander in off the street and expose their fears, desires, and dreams to your view. You might not know exactly what you had been through, but you would certainly start telling your friends you had had an experience...
Behind the color, forms, and ideas of this noted collection of artists, Richter has woven in the music of an equally modern group of composers; the sounds of Milhaud and Bowles happen to be among them. Josh White and Libby Holman sing an ultra-modern ballad, "The Girl With the Pre-Fabricated Heart," behind one of the best sequences. There seems to be no end to the talent assembled here, and though the actors are unknowns, their performances are worthy of the company they...
...help them read and listen, Mills has such top teachers as Sociologist George Hedley, Novelist Jessamyn West, and Composer Darius Milhaud. And this year more students than ever before are reading and listening-548 girls, 15% more than...