Her English father made her discover the wealth of ancient lute music and her French mother was a pianist, a pupil of Ricardo Viñes and Marguerite Long.
She then abandoned the instrument for "physiological reasons" (joint and back pain), as she confided to Olivier Germain-Thomas on the programme "For intérieur", for France culture, aired in 2005) to focus only on the broadcasts she now hosted.
With her accomplice, the director Annie Roger, she delivered a very beautiful work, proposing very elaborate programs that nevertheless never lost the natural evocative of the report on the live, when she left the studios of the Maison de la radio [fr].
She asked that a sentence by the Swiss theologian Karl Barth be inscribed on the CD cover: I am not sure that the angels, when they are praising God, play the music of Bach; I am certain, however, that when they are among them, they play Mozart and that God loves especially to hear them... Claude Samuel emphasizes in his homage, where he evokes This voice tinged with a delicious English accent ... her vast culture, her perfectionism, her anxiety too, that Mildred Clary has continually proved that one could at the same time like Mozart, take an interest in musicians from India and Japan, and assiduously attending concerts of new music.
We all remember the long and moving radio exchanges, especially with Madeleine Milhaud about the life and works of the talented creators she knew so well how to make us appreciate.