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...concert, which is free, will include selections from the music of Riegger, Sessions, and Milhaud...
...devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide) that art must bear witness to Christ, assailed modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their paws...
...Boston Symphony, in collaboration with Conductor Charles Munch and one of the Koussevitzky foundations, is awarding $2,000 apiece to 15 famed composers, e.g., Darius Milhaud, Heitor Villa-Lobos, William Schuman, for symphonic works to be played in 1955, its 75th anniversary year...
...Milhaud: Poemes Juifs (Irma Kolassi, mezzo-soprano; Andre Collard, piano; London). Eight gently affecting songs written in 1916 and dedicated to the composer's Jewish friends and to their memories. The music contains none of the wailing minors that are usually associated with Jewish music, but uses restraining ostinatos and fresh, pastoral melodies to achieve a typically French effect...
...front, played in Army bands on the Coast and in the ETO (where he rarely traveled with fewer than three liberated pianos). He was home again in 1946, determined to be a composer. He played the piano in local joints and studied with France's famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn't stick to jazz...