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The Songs & The Plays - Kean on Shakespeare

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The Songs & The Plays Listen on Youtube Love’s Labours Lost (1593-94) A revised and polished version of this play was presented for Queen Elizabeth I and her court at Christmas 1598. However the elevated language and subject matter of the drama suggests it was always intended for a sophisticated and highly literate audience. There are two parallel plots – one ‘high’ comedy and one ‘low’ comedy. In the high comedy the King of Navarre and his friends make a pact to ‘fast and study’ and to have no contact with women for three years. No sooner have they agreed than the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies in waiting arrive to discuss ‘state matters’. Inevitably the King falls in love with the Princess and his friends with the French ladies in waiting. The Gentlemen find loophole in their vows and woo and win women with a dance. The Ladies become aware of their broken vows and treat the noblemen with scorn. In the low comedy the page Moth and the clown Costard ridicule the exaggerated m...
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Darius Milhaud - Biography - Catalogue de Fleurs

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  Darius Milhaud 1892-1974 Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence into one of oldest Southern-French Jewish families, which could trace their ancestry back to the C10th. His father, an almond exporter, was the accompanist for the Aix Music Society and his Italian mother was a professionally trained contralto, who understood the discipline required to make a career in music.   At the age of 7 Milhaud began studying the violin. He had wanted to start sooner but doctors were prescribing rest and tranquillity for his ill health, which would always be part of his life. His mother instilled in him the strong self-disciplined needed to be a musician, and supervised his homework and practising. Both his parents supported his musical aspirations and sent him to classes at Paris Conservatoire. He went to live in Paris in 1909 but returned to Aix regularly.   He loved to listen to the hum of conversation and songs of the workers in the field. He found his first inspirations at his gra...
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