Music and the Man
ILHAUD’S Seventh String Quartet, just broadcast from 1YA, is a short work as string quartets go,‘running some twelve minutes. Milhaud has also, written a "symphony" lasting only three minutes-a minute a movement-and his "Concertino de Printemps" for violin and orchestra takes little more than eight minutes. All in all, Milhaud seems to eschew the larger canvas. His style, too, in such of his music as we have heard, is precise and delicate. One imagines this Milhaud as a little man, refinement pictured in his countenance and something ascetic about his mien. But look at his photograph. A fearsome shock of black hair crowns a broad, even massive, face and jowled jaw. "Darius Milhaud is a formidable man," says one writer. "On first meeting him you have the sensation of running up against a wall of granite." The only answer of those who argue that music is a matter of the glands and the liver must be that this time it is a case of inversion.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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169Music and the Man New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 352, 22 March 1946, Page 13
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