L’homme et son désir was composed in Brazil in 1917-18, during Milhaud’s tenure as secretary to Paul Claudel. Inspired by the tropical surroundings, and by a visit from Nijinsky, it has a steamy, almost hallucinatory quality, enhanced by the vocalises of Claudel’s “poème plastique” for vocal quartet. The first of Milhaud’s ballets, L’homme et son désir marked the […]
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