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...Orchard-Meadow Hall with A. Maurois, speaking passable French and concentrating on durable French culture. Another, forming a Casa Pan-Americana, bandied Spanish and Portuguese with famed Latin-American Scholar Samuef Guy Inman, even staged fiestas for visiting Latin-American sailors. For music, there was French Composer Darius Milhaud and the Budapest String Quartet, with whom some quartet-struck students carried on a mild flirtation. There were also Architect Richard Neutra, ex-German Political Scientist Hans Simons, many another native and foreign celebrity. But the most popular and interesting character was Aurelia Reinhardt herself...
...Londoners rehearsed three weeks for their programs, which were chosen by Widow Coolidge, included two quartets dedicated to her (by Frenchman Darius Milhaud, Italian Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, both expatriates in California). The four musicians said they felt "as though we never had been separated." To their first audience they sounded that...
Manhattan's worldlywise, bee-busy Museum of Modern Art has a plushy, subterranean auditorium where, between series of movie classics, its customers have heard Mexican music, Brazilian music, movie music, Parisian music (by Darius Milhaud). Last week Museumgoers heard something even more tittupy: the first of six "Coffee Concerts" whose artists will range from an angel-winged, guitar-playing Negro bishop to a squeeze of Spanish bagpipers...
...Concert Master-Ballet music of Milhaud and Strawinsky...
...Netherlands, while Hitler's troops were staging their invasion. Last week Columbia Broadcasting System broadcast his Cortege over WABC, and U. S. critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...