Digital Resources

In addition to physical resources, the Library provides access to a selection of digital resources related to Milhaud. These resources include digitized photographs, correspondence from physical collections, and videos featuring discussions on and performances of Milhaud's music. To view past events supported by the Music Division, please visit the Event Videos page.

Digital Collections
Digital Media

Leonard Bernstein Collection
The online Leonard Bernstein collection makes available a significant selection of correspondence both to and from Bernstein, musical sketches for several of his major works, writings, including the scripts for his Young People's Concerts, Thursday Evening Previews, Omnibus, and Ford Presents, his scrapbooks, photographs, and audio-visual materials. This digital collection includes a manuscript draft of a script in Bernstein's hand for a Thursday Evening Previews performance featuring Milhaud's La Creation du Monde.
Aaron Copland Collection
The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through the 1950s, and were selected from Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs. This digital collection includes a manuscript, in Copland's hand, of an analysis and lecture notes of Milhaud's La creation du monde, and a photograph of Copland and Milhaud at Tanglewood circa 1949.

Find performances, lectures, and talks about Milhaud, his works, and his relationship to the Music Division and many of its Special Collections below.

Concert: Quator Debussy with Katherine Chi
The Lyon-based Quatuor Debussy performs an unusual program that includes Philip Glass' String Quartet no. 2 ("Company"), Puccini's "Crisantemi," and Milhaud's String Quartet no. 9, op. 140. They are joined by pianist Katherine Chi for Franck's Piano Quintet in F minor.
Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge
This exhibition, focused on the legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and her passion for supporting chamber music at the Library of Congress. Includes a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript of Milhaud's Jeux de Printemps.
Darius Milhaud and the Americas
This blog posts consists of a biographical portrait of Darius Milhaud and highlights selections of his works in special format for the blind and print-disabled from the National Library Services Music Section.

Darius Milhaud: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress

Performing Arts: Ask a Librarian

Digital Resources