KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Six Sonnets Composés au Secret par Jean Cassou by Darius Milhaud

Analog Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

C.1962.06.05.c2

Program Length

17 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

A recording of Darius Milhuad’s settings of poems, written in a prison camp by Jean Cassou, composed for unaccompanied vocal quartet or chorus, in 1946. This performance is taken from a June 5, 1962 concert by the Berkeley Chamber Singers, directed by Tikey Zes. Jean Cassou was a French poet and member of the French Resistance who wrote a collection of sonnets while in a Vichy prison, and had them published under a pseudonym in 1944.

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Six Sonnets Composés au Secret, Op. 266 [text by Jean Cassou], for chorus (1946) (16:11) / Darius Milhaud

Performers

Berkeley Chamber Singers

Subjects

20th century classical
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Berkeley Chamber Singers
Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974
Cassou, Jean, 1897-1986
Zes, Tikey