KQED was organized and founded by veteran broadcast journalists James Day and Jonathan Rice on June 1, 1953, and first signed on the air on April 5, 1954, as the fourth television station in the San Francisco Bay Area and the sixth public television station in the United States, debuting shortly after the launch of […]
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An Interview with Madeleine Milhaud
Born at the end of the 19th century, Madeleine Milhaud got married in 1925 to the composer Darius Milhaud, one of her cousins she knew since her childhood. Paul Claudel was the best man at their marriage in Aix-en-Provence, France. Portrait of a woman deeply involved in the 20th century’s history of art. Madeleine Milhaud […]
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The presentation of Elizabeth and Elliott Hurwitt’s appraisal of the music of Darius Milhaud on the world wide web in 1995 was to include two other complementary offerings, a discussion of Ralph Swickard’s documentary film about Milhaud and a discussion of Milhaud’s autobiography, Notes Without Music, that had recently been republished by Marion Boyers as […]
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