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Debussy: Preludes, Book II (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 12 sides); Pour le Piano Suite and Danse (Gaby Casadesus, pianist; Vox, 4 sides); Milhaud: Le Bal Martiniquais (Robert and Gaby Casadesus, duo-pianists; Columbia, 2 sides). Husband & wife take turns working over the iridescent music of a fellow Frenchman. Robert's album is deeper and moodier; Gaby plays more lightly-turned caprices. Their joint record is light, witty...
...conductor was so stiff with arthritis that he had to lead the orchestra sitting down. France's No. 1 composer, chunky little Darius Milhaud, climbed carefully into a chair raised a foot above the stage of Boston's Symphony Hall. From the chair he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra through the first performance of his Symphony No. 2. During tranquil passages he waved his arms gently, as if they would waft him into the air like a weightless blimp. When the music was loud he slid from his chair and stood threateningly on tiptoe...
This week Boston heard and cheered the world premiere of the new symphony. Its five movements built up to moments of authoritative power, which gave way to the skirling and whispering of flutes and violins. There were stretches of dissonance, but they were less strident than early Milhaud...
There was also a homesickness for Milhaud in Paris, where his music is being widely played. Said the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, once of Paris' Left Bank, during a 1945 trip to Europe: "All musical France hopes [for] the return of its master. . . . There is a vacancy in the center of the stage." Milhaud, so crippled that he walks painfully with two canes, finds the California climate healthier than Paris, but says "I need to go back ... in Europe there are more possibilities...
...Milhaud: Suite Franchise (New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Light-hearted folk tunes from five French provinces which homesick Exile Milhaud first put together during the war for Edwin Franko Goldman's brass band. Performance: good...