On a trip to the United States in 1922, Darius Milhaud heard "authentic" jazz for the first time, on the streets of Harlem, which left a great impact on his musical outlook. The following year, he completed his composition ''"La création du monde"'' ("The Creation of the World"), using ideas and idioms from jazz, cast as a ballet in six continuous dance scenes.
In 1925, Milhaud married his cousin, Madeleine (1902 - 2008), an actress and reciter. In 1930 she bore him a son, the painter and sculptor Daniel Milhaud, to be the couple's only child.
The Milhauds left France in 1939 and emigrated to America in 1940 (his Jewish background made it impossible for him to return to his native country until after its Liberation). He secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet. In an extraordinary concert there in 1949, the Budapest Quartet performed the composer's 14th String Quartet, followed by the Paganini's performance of his 15th; and then ''both'' ensembles played the two pieces together as an octet. The following year, these same pieces were performed at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, by the Paganini and Juilliard Quartet.
The jazz pianist Dave Brubeck became one of Milhaud's most famous students when Brubeck furthered his music studies at Mills College in the late 1940s (he named his eldest son Darius). In a February 2010 interview with Jazzwax, Brubeck said he attended Mills, a women's college (men were allowed in graduate programs), specifically to study with Milhaud, saying "Milhaud was an enormously gifted classical composer and teacher who loved jazz and incorporated it into his work. My older brother Howard was his assistant and had taken all of his classes."
Milhaud's former students also include popular songwriter Burt Bacharach. Milhaud told Bacharach, "Don't be afraid of writing something people can remember and whistle. Don't ever feel discomfited by a melody".
Milhaud (like his contemporaries Paul Hindemith, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Bohuslav Martinů and Heitor Villa-Lobos) was an extremely rapid creator, for whom the art of writing music seemed almost as natural as breathing. His most popular works include ''Le bœuf sur le toit'' (a ballet which lent its name to the legendary cabaret frequented by Milhaud and other members of Les Six), ''La création du monde'' (a ballet for small orchestra with solo saxophone, influenced by jazz), ''Scaramouche'' (for Saxophone and Piano, also for two pianos), and ''Saudades do Brasil'' (dance suite). His autobiography is titled ''Notes sans musique'' (''Notes Without Music''), later revised as ''Ma vie heureuse'' (''My Happy Life'').
From 1947 to 1971 he taught alternate years at Mills and the Paris Conservatoire, until poor health, which caused him to use a wheelchair during his later years (beginning sometime before 1947), compelled him to retire. He died in Geneva, aged 81.
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He has performed as guest conductor and soloist of the Classical Symphony Orchestra of Guatemala and the Orquesta de Camara Concerto in Puerto Rico; for Barge Music in New York City; at the Casals Festival of Prades and for recital tours of Malta, Italy, Holland, Korea and Japan.
Colón recordings are featured on the Enharmonic, Centaur, Zephyr, and Lyras labels. Colón currently records for Klavier as solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer under the label. Colón’s arrangements, editions and original compositions are published by Masters Music Publications and H.P. Music Publications.
As the second youngest faculty member to be appointed in the history of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Colón is also known as a pedagogue. He has offered courses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. He is also on faculty at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top in Texas(Rountop Website) and Chamber Music Unbound at the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival in California.(MLMF Website)
Colón received a bachelor’s degree from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 1986 as a student of Joaquín Vidaechea, where he won the Pablo Casals Medal upon graduation. As a student and teaching assistant to the distinguished cellist and pedagogue Janos Starker, Colón earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1989. He won first prize at the Las Americas Festival Solo Competition. Colón plays on a J.B. Vuillaume Cello from 1844 and a Dominique Peccatte bow.
Co-producer for the album, arranger, and cello soloist
Description: All new arrangements by Emilio Colón for cello and piano
Program: Lecuona: Danzas Afro-Cubanas Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas Piazzolla: Nuevo Tango: Oblivion, Tzigane Tango, Milonga del Angel, Muerte del Angel Danzas Célebres Puertorriqueñas Morel Campos: Felices Días Mislán: Tu y Yo Miranda: Impromptu, Op.10 Colón: Armando's Waltz for Cello and Piano (premiere)
Emilio Colón, cello and Sung Hoon Mo, Piano. Cello and piano pieces from Spain and Latin America
Program: Ginastera: Pampeana No. 2, Op. 21 Ponce (arr. Cassadó): Estrellita Falla (arr. Colón): Siete Canciones Populares Españolas Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango Villa-Lobos: Pequena Suite Morel-Campos (arr. Colón): Bella Illusión Tavárez (arr. Colón): Un Recuerdito Danza capricho Turina (arr. Colón): Tres Sonetos, Op. 54: 1. Anhelos (Desires) Sarasate (arr. Colón): Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
Emilio Colón: Co-producer for the album, cellist, arranger, composer
Trio Amadé debut recording
Program: Copland: Vitebsk Bernstein: Trio Piazzolla: Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas Colón: “N” Tango for Piano Trio
Salmetón para Violin y Piano
Dedication: for Jessica Mathaes on the occasion of her Cuypers 200th birthday; inspirado por mis queridos amigos Rafi y Ramonita
Premiered on December 9, 2007 by Jessica Mathaes & Rick Rowley at Bates Recital Hall in Austin, Texas.
1. Ari y Sofía: El Juego de las Sillas 2. Bodie at Horshoe Lake 3. Erratics 4. Iris y Naomi: Libros de Niños 5. Ana y Elisa: Par' de Camisas
Commissioned by Ellen Siegal and the Felici Trio
Dedication: A mis queridos amigos The Felicio Trio y Ellen Siegal
Premiered on August 1, 2007 by the Felici Trio at the Mammoth Lakes Festival in California
Commissioned by James Vandemark
Dedication: A mi querido amigo JB and his lovely daughter Dana
Premiered on June 9, 2007 at the International Festival-Institute in Roundtop Texas by James Vandemark and Nariaki Sugiura
1. La Casa Grande: La Casa Vieja de Maresúa 2. Tinayarí 3. Bonita 4. El Combate
Commissioned by the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Dedication: A lamemoria de dos seres queridos Elsie Ramírez de Roque y Evelina Cucalón de Fougeres
Premiered on May 4, 2007 by Emilio Colón and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Lowenheim, conductor
Doña Bele y Don Enrique Armando’s Waltz Pambel
Premiered by Trio Amadé on 8/23/2001 at the Sommerabendmusik Series, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Delray Beach, Fl
Recorded by Trio Amadé for Klavier Records 8/2001
For Cello and String Quartet
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
For Cello and String Quartet
For Piano Trio and String Orchestra
Commissioned by and premiered at the Cedar Arts Forum String Camp, Waterloo, IA
For violin and piano
Guánica Jíbaro Impro sobre un seis Madre
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