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...third sequence is by the celebrated photographer-artist Man Ray and has music by Darius Milhaud. In it a group of people are made to imitate the actions of a movie actor (played by Mr. Ray) as they watch him on the screen. It seems to be Mr. Ray's amusing way of showing his rejection of conformity to the herd...
Appalachian Spring. Mrs. Coolidge has commissioned at least one of the great quartets of Bartók, another by Prokofiev, ballet music by Stravinsky (Apollon Musagètes), Aaron Copland (Appalachian Spring). Milhaud and Hindemith, and countless works by U.S. composers like Walter Piston, Quincy Porter, Howard Hanson, William Schuman. She built a $94,000 concert hall in the Library of Congress, and endowed it with $25,000 a year...
...Milhaud: Symphony No. 1 (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). France's Composer Milhaud, like Brahms, waited until he was past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...
...podium in front of Toscanini's own NBC Symphony, to guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
...Estrella." The Radcliffe Dance Group, under Anne A. Cameron's direction, will perform in several battles including one of the Orchestra's perennial stand-bys, the "Variations on Mary Had A Little Lamb," by Edward Ballantine '05, associate professor of Music emeritus. Other works to be performed are Danius Milhaud's modern arrangement of Couperin's "Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe '50 as the soloist; Dvor ak's sixth "Slavonic Dance;" Debussy's "Sacred Dance" for harp and strings with Phyllis Botner, Radcliffe '50 as soloist...