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Chicago music lovers got a treat last week: the first U.S. performance of Symphony No. 7 by Darius Milhaud (pronounced me-lo). Performed with clarity and spirit by Conductor Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, it turned out to be one of Milhaud's most appealing works...
...Chicago audience, a generally conservative one, did not demonstrably go for the Milhaud work; in fact, most of them did not go to hear it, but got it as a bonus with the star attraction, Jascha Heifetz and the Brahms Violin Concerto. But, in time to come, Milhaud's piece should win hearers on its own merit...
...Gregorian chant and spent much time at Solesmes. There are several groups in this country dedicated to the revival of the chant, and one of them is my own choir, which consists of ecclesiastical students for the priesthood from the seminary which is attached to our abbey. Darius Milhaud has become so interested in our attempt to revive the chant that he has composed Trots Psaumes de David for my choir. This composition is the setting to music of several of the Psalms. He employs the unique technique of permitting the odd verses of each psalm to remain...
...switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...practical outlook. The Martenot has been manufactured and sold (190 models at about $700 each), can be mastered in a few months, is already used by the Paris Opera and theaters. It has had 518 compositions written for it, some by such first-rate composers as Honegger and Milhaud. It utilizes a keyboard and a metalized ribbon that produces slithery glissandos, can control color and volume through other accessories, but cannot play chords...