Though he was not Brazilian, this composer used a notoriously untranslatable Portuguese word for a feeling of futile nostalgia in a set of twelve piano suites.
Though he was not Brazilian, this composer used a notoriously untranslatable Portuguese word for a feeling of futile nostalgia in a set of twelve piano suites. Those "Saudades do Brasil" were written in collaboration with the French minister to Brazil, Paul Claudel, who also collaborated with this composer on a ballet that uses a whip and a whistle in the percussion section, the Amazon-set Man and His Desire. An encounter with the Billy Arnold Jazz Band led to another of his ballets, for which Fernand Leger designed the sets. In that ballet, Mzamé, Mebère, and Nkwa emerge from a piano-and-drum hailstorm, and in the final tableau, "The Man and Woman Kiss." For 10 points, name this member of Les Six who used jazz forms and African myths for his ballet The Creation of the World.
Though he was not Brazilian, this composer used a notoriously untranslatable Portuguese word for a feeling of futile nostalgia in a set of twelve piano suites.
Darius {Milhaud}