My Happy Life Notes Without Music was reprinted by Da Capo Press in 1970 in their Da Capo Press Music Reprint Series. It reproduced all text and illustrations following the same format and pagination that was used in the Alfred Knopf edition of 1953. The editions are identical in that respect. The Knopf edition was […]
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The Classical Collector
The most comprehensive collection of historic Milhaud performances to date is The Classical Collector (150 122) (Archives Sonores de la Phonotèque Nationale). This three-CD set includes most of the recordings made by Milhaud and his best friends and interpreters in Paris and Brussels between 1928 and 1948, transfered to digital sound and admirably restored. Though […]
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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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