Milhaud


Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Wikipedia.

Milhaud

Darius . 1892--1974, French composer; member of Les Six. A notable exponent of polytonality, his large output includes operas, symphonies, ballets, string quartets, and songs
References in periodicals archive ?
Many came to California: When Milhaud landed in New York he was offered a job at Mills College in Oakland.
You can invent the best system on Earth, boost oversight and alerts, but you are still dealing with men and this entails risks," Milhaud said.
Music that is closest to Bloch's in terms of Jewishness comes from the output of two other composers--Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Darius Milhaud.
With his liberal use of instruments such as the saxophone, Milhaud frequently puts something of a jazzy spin into these compositions, and his vivid use of voice and percussion makes his music a treat for the ears.
A student of Darius Milhaud, he is one of the acknowledged pioneers in the field of electronic music and an innovator in works involving instruments and other media, including interactive computer music systems.
The range of music represented on the disc is broad enough to include even a polka by Darius Milhaud from Renoir's Madame Bovary (1933).
The 160-year-old campus, highly regarded for its academic and artistic accomplishments, honors two of its most groundbreaking figures: legendary composer and former Professor of Music John Cage and Darius Milhaud Professor of Composition Pauline Oliveros.
Contract award: toulon naval base monitoring of milhaud landing stages 1 to 5.
William Martens studied counterpoint, harmony, fuga, composition and film music between 1968 and 1972 with Nadia Boulanger and Darius Milhaud at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris in France.
The one-act pieces are by composers Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud and Ernst Toch.
For that article, I interviewed Dave, his brother Howard Brubeck, and clarinetist Bill Smith, who performed in the Brubeck Octet during 1946, when Dave was studying composition with Darius Milhaud at Mills College.
In these lectures, he proceeds geographically from Paris (Poulenc, Honegger, Milhaud, Stravinsky, de Falb) to Germany/Austria (Berg, Wehern, Weill, Hindemith), and from Eastern Europe (Barra) to the Americas (Villa-Lobos, Copland).