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...GermaineTailleferre,got married; another member, Louis Durey, gave up both composing and talking. But two of them actually got around to a large batch of serious composing. One of these was a Swiss, Arthur Honegger-famed for his symphonic imitation of a train (Pacific 231)-the other was Darius Milhaud who, in 1921, scandalized Paris by setting florists' catalogues to music. These two climbed to a place as the most important French composers of their generation...
...months ago, when Hitler's Blitzkrieg rolled into Paris, one lesser, but still active member of "The Six" (Francis Poulenc) was in the French Army, another (Georges Auric) was sticking it out in Southern France, and Swiss Citizen Honegger had fled to Switzerland. Milhaud. who had been vacationing in Provence, packed up what belongings he could carry and started for the U. S. where Califor nia's Mills College had offered him a job next fall lecturing on musical composition...
Last month fat, stubby-haired Milhaud and his pretty actress wife Madeleine arrived in Manhattan. With him, Composer Milhaud brought a new Cortege Funebre, which he had dashed off as a dirge...
...some clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred to spend most of his life in France, and now finds France actually too pessimistic for him; Novelist Jules Remains, author of the monumental...
...Dvorak after his visit to America in the late 1890's, and the effect that it had on the young American composers of the time. Following his lead, a small school of devotees grew up, but produced, unfortunately, no work of outstanding merit. In 1924, the French composer, Darius Milhaud, wrote: ". . . Negro music, with its deep human content which is about to create as complete a revolution as any of the masterpieces now recognized." As yet the revolution prophesied has not taken place, but it is nevertheless on the way. Through better education for Negroes who show talent, much work...