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The Darius Milhaud Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, Spring 1985 Cleveland State University EngagedScholarship@CSU Darius Milhaud Society Newsletters Michael Schwartz Library 1985 The Darius Milhaud Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, Spring 1985 Darius Milhaud Society Follow this and additional works at: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/milhaud_newsletters Part of the History Commons, and the Music Commons How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! Recommended Citation Darius Milhaud Society, "The Darius Milhaud Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, Spring 1985" (1985). Darius Milhaud Society Newsletters. 8. https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/milhaud_newsletters/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Michael Schwartz Library at EngagedScholarship@CSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Darius Milhaud Society Newsletters by an authorized administrator of EngagedScholarship@CSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE DARIUS MILHAUD SOCIETY Newsletter Cleveland, Ohio Spring 1985 Vol. I, No.1 ... a composer mustdo EVERYTJUNG withdedication, with aU the conte'!'-poralJ! technical possibilities at hisdisposal, so that after a life oftoll he mayhope to see works remain whose melodic line will stay in the memory;foronly melody the sole living element, enables a work to last. ' ~--- PURPOSE OF THE DARIUS MILHAUD SOCIETY­ The Darius Milhaud Society was founded to fulfill several goals: 1. Theprimary purpose oftheSocietyisfirst andforemost While Madame Milhaud is in Cleveland, the Dave to encourage and expedite the performance ofthe large Brubeck Quartet will present a concert to benefit the Darius repertoire of Milhaud's music throughout the United Milhaud Society, with the assistanceofthe University Circle States. Milhaud published 443 compositions, a Chamber Choir, directed by Gilbert Brooks. The concert will staggering output for any individual - even one who include performance of Milhaud's Miracles of Faith with worked as quickly as did Milhaud- and thetreasureof orchestral accompaniment, Brubeck's Pange Lingua Varia· his music is comparablein bothquantity andquality to tions, and jazz by the Quartet. The day after the benefit thatofJ. S. Bach. The Darius Milhaud Society hopes to concert, Dave Brubeck willspeak atthe Cleveland Instituteof familiarize individuals and symphonic, choral, and Music about what he learned from Darius Milhaud while chamber music organizations, colleges, universities, studying composition with him. and conservatories with thescopeofpossibilitiesand to encourage them to perform a wide variety ofMilhaud's ********** music as part of their standard repertoire. 2. The Society serves as repository for an archive of AMERICAN PERFORMANCES OF MILHAUD'S scores, recordings, publications, programs, pictures, MUSIC - Those known to have occurred during 1984 and A and other memorabilia of and pertaining to Darius the first half of 1985 have included: W Milhaud. The Society is willing to advise performers, Cantate de l'Enfant et de la Mere, Op. 185 (1938), with help obtain musicwhen assistanceisneeded, givecoun· Mary Metz as recitante, Mills College, February 1984 seling concerning program choices, and to aid in a Carnaval d'Aix, Op. 83b (1926), theOakland Ballet,late variety of ways those individuals and organizations 1984 who seek to perform Milhaud's music. Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra, Op. 109 3. The Society is in the process of establishing a mailing (1929-30), in Calaveras County, California, in 1984; list to aid in the development of subscribers to a and in Oklahoma City, Visalia (California), Milhaud newsletter to be sent for the purposeofinform· Baltimore, and Stockholm (Sweden), March 1985 ing individuals and organizations ofnew publications, Miracles of Faith, Op. 314 (1951}, Cleveland.. Aprilll, recordings, performances, and activities relating to 1985 Darius Milhaud and his music. Operas-minute: L 'Enlevem ent d'Europ e, L 'Abandon d'Ariane, and La Delivrance de Thesee, Op. 94, 98, 99 ••••••••• (1927), under the direction ofHenry Holt, University ofSouthern California, December 1984 DARIUSMILHAUD SOCIETYHISTORY-TheDarius Woodwind quintets, La Cheminee du Roi R ene, Milhaud Society was founded in Cleveland ·in January 1984. Op. 205 (1939), Divertissement, Op. 299b (1958), and Its chief purpose is to encourage the performance of a wide Quintette avent, Op. 443 (1973); and wind trio, Suite repertoire ofMilhaud's music all over the United States. As d'apres Garrette, Op. 161 b (1937), Cleveland, April14, its initial undertaking, the Society planned, coordinated, and 1985 helped sponsor a festival during the spring of 1984 in which Suite, Op. 157b (1936), for violin, clarinet, and piano, 18 different cultural and educational institutions and organi· Cleveland, April14, 1985 zations participated, to present 275 artists in 19 concerts, two master classes, three lectures, two films, and an art To be heard in Cleveland on June 25, 1985: exhibition. Three selections from S ept Poemes de Paul Claudel de Madame Madeleine Milhaud traveled to Cleveland from la Connnissance de l'Est, Op. 7 (1912·13) Paris, performed Suite de Quatrains, conducted a master Trois Poemes de Cocteau, Op. 59 (1919) class on Milhaud's songs, and gave two lectures. She also Deuxieme Sonate, Op. 293 (1949), for piano accepted a document from Mayor George Voinovich of Premiere Sonate, Op. 240 (1944), for viola and piano Cleveland to proclaim Darius Milhaud Day on March 31, Sonatine, Op. 76 (1922), for flute and piano 1984. Madame Milhaud will return to Cleveland during the Please send information to the Society about All of 1985 to give the first United States performance of performances in your area. - ntate pour ['Inauguration du Musee de l'Homme, accompanied by members of the Cleveland Orchestra. She will also give lectures at the Cleveland Institute ofMusic and ********** Cleveland State University. HONORARY TRUSTEES HONORARY COMM ITTEE Madeleine Milhaud, Chair Maurice Abravanel Charles Jones Vitya Vronsky Babin Leonard Bernstein Virgil Thomson Grant Johannesen Dave Brubeck Henri Sauguet, France Odette Valabregue Wurzburger Aaron Copland Paul Collaer, Belgium FOREIGN PERFORMANCES OF MILHAUD'S REVIEW by David Stevens, International H erald Tribune, October Although the list is not complete, the following 13-14, 1984 - Christophe Colomb, a vast opera thai is probably the MUSIC - most ambitious of the many collaborations of the composer Darius works are known to have been heard in Europe in 1984 and Milhaud and the poet Paul Claude!, has just emerged from half a 1985, or soon will be performed: century of semi-oblivion with its French stage premiere - in a Christophe Colomb, Op. 102 (1928), with text by Paul handsome and passionately committed production by the Marseille Claude!, staged in France for the first time by the Opera. Marseille Opera, under the artistic direction of The work was given its world premiere in 1930, apparently with Jacques Karpo, for four performances October 5 , 7, 9, great success and under prestigious conditions, at the Berlin and 11, 1984. The opera was televised live, and the Staatsoperunder Erich Kleiber's musical direction. But it was several broadcast occurred on French TV on May 26, 1985. more years before it was heard in concert form in France and else­ performed in where, and not until the late 1960's did anyone try to stage it again. L 'Homme et son Desir, Op. 48 (1918), The reasons for the neglect are as understandable as they are public concert at Radio France, by students of the lamentable. Christophe Colomb is an immense undertaking, a kind National Conservatory, December 1984. The work of scenic oratorio in two parts, with 28 scenes (in this production) of was also performed in a concertorganized by IRCAM three hours running time. Itrequires large instrumental forces in the during a conference on percussion. pit and offstage, more than 40 solo spoken and sung parts plus a kind Le Pauure Matelot, Op. 92 (1926), 32 performances with of Greek chorus, and spectacular but quick-changing scenic effects, piano accompanimentincafes all overParis, summer including film projections, a novelty in the opera house at the time of 1984. its premiere. Itlooks back to such diverse traditions as French grand Sonatine, Op. 324 (1953), for violin and violoncello, opera, medieval mystery plays and religious oratorio, not to mention Suite de Quatrains, Op. 398 (1962), and Trio for Claudel's varied theatrical palette - grandiose, symbolic and Strings, Op. 274 (1947), performed at the meeting of picaresque. Another "problem" is that Milhaud goes far beyond his the Association Francis Jammes, February 1985. At persistent image as one of the more fun-loving members of Les Six. the same meeting, Madeleine Milhaud spoke about Into this vessel he poured the considerable range of his musical and Darius Milhaud. The Trio performance was repeated stylistic development. The percussion plays a predominant role, with later at Radio France. each scene seeming to have its characteristic rhythm, yet this dramatic side co-exists with Milha ud's Mediterranean lyricis. To be heard on June 17: 300 children of five public schools Latin American dance rhythms, and an often light· hearted way wi will sing the Milhaud works for children's voices- A propos religious music. de Bottes, Op. 118 (1932), Un petit peu d'Exercice, Op. 133 Christophe Colomb is clearly no repertory piece; it needs a (1934), and Unpetitpeude Musique, Op. l19(1932)- as well champion, just as Jean·Louis Barrault has championed Claudel's as Chansons de Vildrac, Op. 167 (1936·37) and some other plays (including a Christophe Colomb with Milh aud's incidental music totally different from his opera score). songs. They will a lso perform some instrumental works with That champion is Jacques Karpo, who has shrewdly and sensi· the students of the Milha ud Conservatory in Paris. tively been guiding the artistic course of the Marseille Opera for a decade. In 1968 he was a production assistant at the San Francisco * ******** Opera, when that company staged a one-act, one-hour version of the opera, and Karpo filed away in his head the long·range ambition to DARIUS MILHAUD'S CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS stage the full work one day.
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