Jack in the Box (Satie) Derain, and the music orchestrated by Satie's friend Darius Milhaud. The ballet received mainly negative comments: French critics called it "banal", while English critics decried it as "pert but hollow." It was also published as a short suite for solo piano in the form in which Satie left it. The piano and orchestral versions have both received numerous recordings. The work has three short movements, lasting less than seven minutes: All the movements are in C major, and all undergo many time changes between and , the changes often lasting for only a single measure at a time. The music
Sacred Service (Milhaud) Sacred Service (Milhaud) The Sacred Service for the Sabbath Morning is a piece of religious music written by Darius Milhaud on a 1948 commission from the Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue in San Francisco. It is a composition for baritone soloist, narrator (speaking), choir, and orchestra. The choral text is in Hebrew, that of the narrator in Hebrew and English. It is one of the two musical compositions that include the Hebrew liturgy of an entire prayer service, the other being Ernest Bloch's "Avodath Hakodesh", a work commissioned by the same synagogue. The composer, himself of Jewish origin and having composed other