Klarinet Archive - Posting 000102.txt from 2003/05

From: James Langdell <langdell@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: Darius Milhaud Petit Concert/Anouilh
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:59:25 -0400

Elise Curran wrote:
> I just saw this post (below) from April 8, and had to respond.
> IN 1986 in Orlando at Valencia Community College I played
> 'The Musician' in a Jean Anouilh play called "Theives Carnival",
> which is the english translation of 'Bal de Voluers'. The music
> was not by Milhaud; there was a piano track
> that I had to play along with, and I even had to improvise some mood
> music a capella. In the end, my character came back on stage disguised
> as a detective, who makes the surprise announcement that ends the show,
> and then whips out the clarinet and starts to play! It was great fun.
>
> I would be very curious to see Milhaud's music for this show.

I've not heard a performance of this play that used Milhaud's music.
I was intrigued to see the incidental music listed in a work list
for Milhaud, but I never found a source for it at the time I looked
for the music (including inquiries of the Milhaud archives at
Mills College, where he taught composition for many years).

The first I ever saw of music Milhaud composed for this play was
the suite published a few years ago in a clarinet/piano arrangement
titled "Petit Concert". Does anyone know where more of the music
for "Bal de Voleurs" can be found?

--James Langdell langdell@-----.net

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