Word: milhaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more significant as an indication of his stature was the remainder of the program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another...
...organ sounds outside the Roxy are mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
...sons, by Beethoven, Handel and Faure, as well as by early Spanish and French composers. That still left one gap: the moderns. To fill it, Zabaleta began badgering living composers to write for the harp. So far, six concertos have been dedicated to him, including compositions by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos...
...music critic and ghostwriter by the time he was 20. In the early '30s, he covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...
...four years, he has introduced new symphonic works by such radicals as Schoenberg, Schnabel and Sessions, and such theater works (in concert form) as Busoni's Arlecchino and Berg's Wozzeck. Last week he was at it again: he conducted the first U.S. performance of Darius Milhaud's opera Christopher Columbus...