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
The Minotaur (opera) A Ker enters to feed on his body. The Minotaur (opera) The Minotaur is an opera in two acts, with 13 scenes by English composer Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by poet David Harsent, commissioned by the Royal Opera House in London. The work, a retelling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, premiered at the Royal Opera House on 15 April 2008. The score is modernistic, and the scenes fall into three types: bullfights; scenes between Ariadne and Theseus; and dream sequences for the Minotaur, in which the creature has the gift of speech. The opera lasts about 140