Saturday, April 30, 2011
What Artur had to say about DariusA new twist to the Boeuf sur le Toit story.
Artur Rubinstein and Darius Milhaud, Rio de Janeiro, 1918 (Rubinstein: My Many Years)
As Darius Milhaud maintained in his autobiography, Notes sans Musique (1949), he intended Le Boeuf sur le Toit to be a musical accompaniment for one of Charlie Chaplin’s films. “Cocteau disapproved of my idea, and proposed that he should use it for a show, which he would undertake to put on. Cocteau had a genius for improvisation! Hardly had he conceived the idea of a project than he immediately carried it out.”
The pianist Artur Rubinstein, who had made Milhauds acquaintance during his first South American concert tour, presents a different scenario in his own autobiography, My Many Years (1980). Rubinstein’s account reveals that Milhaud and Cocteau first presented Le Boeuf to Serge Diaghilev in the hope that he would stage it.
The very amusing story is told in full in “Milhaud & Rubinstein in Rio and Paris.”
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