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...long time, I have had the idea of writing a composition fit for high school purposes and this was the result," Darius Milhaud said of his Suite Francaise (1945), his first extended work for winds. Milhaud's suite is written in five parts, named after French provinces in which the Allies and the French underground fought together against "the German invaders, who in less than seventy years have brought war, destruction, cruelty, torture and murder," as Milhaud wrote...
Arada Woodwind Trio presents a concert of chamber music for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon. Works by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos. Adams...
Norman Letvin, Lenora Stein, and others. Music for winds by Milhaud, Bach, Beethoven and Fine...
Died. Darius Milhaud, 81, French composer of some 450 symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos and other works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout...
ADAMS HOUSE JCR. Recital of Music for Viola: Yizhak Schotten, member Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Judith Olsen, pianist, Bach, Suite No. 2 in D minor, Brahms, Sonata No. 2 in E flat; Hindeminth, Unaccompanied Sonata, Milhaud, Quatre Visages; Enescu, Knozertstucke. March 11, time TBA, FREE...