Word: milhaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public reaction was immediate and astonishing. Some 150 Berkeley citizens held a hasty mass meeting, raised $2,300 from the floor. Such notables as Philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn, Economist John B. Condliffe, Composers Darius Milhaud and Roger Sessions became KPFA sponsors. Dr. J. Raymond Cope, minister of Berkeley's First Unitarian Church, enrolled 250 volunteer fundraisers, who collected a total of $23,000 in contributions. And Raytheon Manufacturing Co. donated the components of a new 16,100-watt transmitter which can send an FM signal throughout the whole San Francisco Bay area...
...Piston (who supplied the theme of the second movement.) This work, commissioned by Town Hall, has already been played in France and Germany, and last night marked its second local performance. Mr. Sapp, who is now teaching Music 102, uses a jazzy, dissonant idiom which hints at times of Milhaud and Hindemith, but is distinctly his own. Nobody will be whistling any of the tunes, but the work holds together well and indicates real ability. The performance, of course, was authoritative...
Carrying his $30,000 Stradivarius cello like a toy, the hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.) master lunged onstage, plunked himself into a chair next to the piano. Then he launched into a program of Schumann, Bach, Milhaud, Debussy, Bloch and Ravel. He played them all with masterful technique and taste, though he was at his best when the music called for soaring rhapsody. All in all, he played with the freshness of a man who had taken time out to think things over...
...Milhaud, Durey, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre...