Guide to the Repertory
... Adrian Danchig-Waring, Amar Ramasar Jeux is a ballet with a past. Its score by Claude Debussy was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for a Ballets Russes production choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky. The music’s 60 tempo changes and the original ballet’s ambiguous ménage à trois in playful pursuit of a ...
... Adrian Danchig-Waring, Amar Ramasar Jeux is a ballet with a past. Its score by Claude Debussy was commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for a Ballets Russes production choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky. The music’s 60 tempo changes and the original ballet’s ambiguous ménage à trois in playful pursuit of a ...
COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC NO.1: OLIVIER MESSIAEN 1908
... With the outbreak of war in 1914, and the call-up of Pierre Messiaen, the family went to stay at Grenoble, in the Dauphiné mountains, a constant source of inspiration throughout his life as a composer. During these years, he started piano lessons, playing pieces that he bought from the town's large ...
... With the outbreak of war in 1914, and the call-up of Pierre Messiaen, the family went to stay at Grenoble, in the Dauphiné mountains, a constant source of inspiration throughout his life as a composer. During these years, he started piano lessons, playing pieces that he bought from the town's large ...
Zachary Bernstein
... have tended to ignore or dismiss the role of organicism in Babbitt’s music. In this paper, I discuss three analytical situations that encourage us to rethink certain aspects of organicist analysis. The first two situations––the convoluted path to the series in Composition for Four Instruments, and t ...
... have tended to ignore or dismiss the role of organicism in Babbitt’s music. In this paper, I discuss three analytical situations that encourage us to rethink certain aspects of organicist analysis. The first two situations––the convoluted path to the series in Composition for Four Instruments, and t ...
Samuel Barber: Born to Compose - University of Minnesota Duluth
... Barber was a talented singer, and his talent for singing and songwriting gave him a lyricism that influenced his symphonic works. Among his early symphonic success were Overture to “The School for Scandal” (1931) and the first Essay for Orchestra (1938). Literature was a great influence for both of ...
... Barber was a talented singer, and his talent for singing and songwriting gave him a lyricism that influenced his symphonic works. Among his early symphonic success were Overture to “The School for Scandal” (1931) and the first Essay for Orchestra (1938). Literature was a great influence for both of ...
Teacher Notes on Russian Music and Composers Prokofiev gave up
... Stravinsky became cut off, not only from Russia but also from the Ballets Russes - the European engagements of which had to be abandoned and replaced by an American tour - and from his music publishers, who had their headquarters in Berlin. He tried to overcome these difficulties in various ways. He ...
... Stravinsky became cut off, not only from Russia but also from the Ballets Russes - the European engagements of which had to be abandoned and replaced by an American tour - and from his music publishers, who had their headquarters in Berlin. He tried to overcome these difficulties in various ways. He ...
Rudepoema
... feature of the classical style, namely the constant alternation and mixture of topics related to meanings of two opposite topical fields. Rudepoema was written between 1921 and 1926. It took Villa-Lobos six years to finish the composition. This was an unusual length of time for his standards. No oth ...
... feature of the classical style, namely the constant alternation and mixture of topics related to meanings of two opposite topical fields. Rudepoema was written between 1921 and 1926. It took Villa-Lobos six years to finish the composition. This was an unusual length of time for his standards. No oth ...
The Impact of Russian Music in England
... significant effort been made to connect it with the aesthetics of composition and performance. The broad concept of ‘reception’ in music is, in itself, nothing new; generalisations about attitudes toward and responses to a composer or repertoire have been made for the last few centuries. Reception ...
... significant effort been made to connect it with the aesthetics of composition and performance. The broad concept of ‘reception’ in music is, in itself, nothing new; generalisations about attitudes toward and responses to a composer or repertoire have been made for the last few centuries. Reception ...
Audience Guide - Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
... Corsaire pas de deux. What complicates matters more is that we don’t really know what in Petipa’s production may have originated with Mazilier or Perrot. Despite all of that, we tend to give Petipa most of the credit, as dance historian Doug Fullington says, because “he gave it the most years.”* The ...
... Corsaire pas de deux. What complicates matters more is that we don’t really know what in Petipa’s production may have originated with Mazilier or Perrot. Despite all of that, we tend to give Petipa most of the credit, as dance historian Doug Fullington says, because “he gave it the most years.”* The ...
Program Notes - The Friends of Chamber Music
... Later, in 1889, he heard the music of the Javanese blockbuster movement that is a technical tour de force. gamelan orchestra at the Paris Exposition Universelle. Soon Book I’s Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest [What the West Wind Eastern sonorities inspired by gamelan were cropping up Saw] is a virtuosic p ...
... Later, in 1889, he heard the music of the Javanese blockbuster movement that is a technical tour de force. gamelan orchestra at the Paris Exposition Universelle. Soon Book I’s Ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest [What the West Wind Eastern sonorities inspired by gamelan were cropping up Saw] is a virtuosic p ...
MARIUS PETIPA 1819-1910 French by birth, Marius Petipa was first
... French by birth, Marius Petipa was first a dancer and choreographer, but it was as ballet master of the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, that he made his undeniable contributions to the art of ballet. During his career, Petipa created over 50 ballets, revived 17 others and arranged dances ...
... French by birth, Marius Petipa was first a dancer and choreographer, but it was as ballet master of the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, that he made his undeniable contributions to the art of ballet. During his career, Petipa created over 50 ballets, revived 17 others and arranged dances ...
Study Guide - New York Theatre Ballet
... into theatrical presentations. The ancient Greeks used choral hymns and dance in their worship. Later, an actor was added along with the chorus, then a second actor was added and drama as we know it was born. What makes a theatrical experience? Actors on a “stage” (which might be anything from a hug ...
... into theatrical presentations. The ancient Greeks used choral hymns and dance in their worship. Later, an actor was added along with the chorus, then a second actor was added and drama as we know it was born. What makes a theatrical experience? Actors on a “stage” (which might be anything from a hug ...
The Evolution of Dance - Holly Grove Middle School Dance
... Art of Dancing and Conducting Dances). In it he used the word ballo for dance instead of the common word danza. He also choreographed and wrote out many of the earliest known ballets, known as balleti. He is credited with naming ballet. ...
... Art of Dancing and Conducting Dances). In it he used the word ballo for dance instead of the common word danza. He also choreographed and wrote out many of the earliest known ballets, known as balleti. He is credited with naming ballet. ...
program notes - Chicago Symphony Orchestra
... Graham and Copland a while to agree on their subject. Graham finally suggested something that would capture the spirit of Thorton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, and that became their touchstone. When Copland received Graham’s first script, he said, “This is a legend of American living. It is like the ...
... Graham and Copland a while to agree on their subject. Graham finally suggested something that would capture the spirit of Thorton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, and that became their touchstone. When Copland received Graham’s first script, he said, “This is a legend of American living. It is like the ...
Stravinsky and the End of Musical Time
... basic instincts of self-preservation and procreation common to dance are expressed not only in The Rite but throughout the world.8 Thus, Messiaen believed that the battle between the two dinosaurs accompanied by Stravinsky’s music in Fantasia was not as far-fetched as one would believe. In his analy ...
... basic instincts of self-preservation and procreation common to dance are expressed not only in The Rite but throughout the world.8 Thus, Messiaen believed that the battle between the two dinosaurs accompanied by Stravinsky’s music in Fantasia was not as far-fetched as one would believe. In his analy ...
ENJXSunit_22_XXII - Hobby`s ABAC Materials
... Stravinsky embodied the most significant impulses of his time “I hold that it was a mistake to consider me a revolutionary. If one only need break habit in order to be labeled a revolutionary, then every artist who has something to say and who in order to say it steps outside the bounds of establish ...
... Stravinsky embodied the most significant impulses of his time “I hold that it was a mistake to consider me a revolutionary. If one only need break habit in order to be labeled a revolutionary, then every artist who has something to say and who in order to say it steps outside the bounds of establish ...
History of Nutcracker 2013
... Over 100 years old, The Nutcracker Ballet was first presented at the Mayinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 17, 1892. Peter Tchaikovsky, the famous Russian composer, was commissioned by mastermind choreographer Marius Petipa to compose the ballet, score based on Alexandre Dumas’s ad ...
... Over 100 years old, The Nutcracker Ballet was first presented at the Mayinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on December 17, 1892. Peter Tchaikovsky, the famous Russian composer, was commissioned by mastermind choreographer Marius Petipa to compose the ballet, score based on Alexandre Dumas’s ad ...
agreement - Composers Association of New Zealand
... The Composer agrees to compose an original musical work (“The Work”) of approximately minutes duration for players drawn from the following list: List of instruments The Composer shall present to The Performer a full conductor’s score and parts by deadline. The Composer also agrees to lodge a copy o ...
... The Composer agrees to compose an original musical work (“The Work”) of approximately minutes duration for players drawn from the following list: List of instruments The Composer shall present to The Performer a full conductor’s score and parts by deadline. The Composer also agrees to lodge a copy o ...
Works of Scriabin, Chopin, Ravel, and Prokofiev
... Chopin as its forbearer—if Johann Strauss, Jr. is forever known as the “Waltz King,” Chopin might be aptly described as the “Keyboard Waltz King.” But after just a phrase of the Scriabin we are far from Chopin’s salon; this is overripe music, so decadent that it barely hangs together. The left hand ...
... Chopin as its forbearer—if Johann Strauss, Jr. is forever known as the “Waltz King,” Chopin might be aptly described as the “Keyboard Waltz King.” But after just a phrase of the Scriabin we are far from Chopin’s salon; this is overripe music, so decadent that it barely hangs together. The left hand ...
Inside Story
... ‘Timisoara’ are concluded by the irridescent calm of a homage to Jan Palac – fallen hero of the 1968 Prague Spring – which ensures a musical focus to balance the conceptual framework. The Still Dancers (1992) draws on examples of natural phenomena in a novel approach to string quartet composition. O ...
... ‘Timisoara’ are concluded by the irridescent calm of a homage to Jan Palac – fallen hero of the 1968 Prague Spring – which ensures a musical focus to balance the conceptual framework. The Still Dancers (1992) draws on examples of natural phenomena in a novel approach to string quartet composition. O ...
ORANGES
... ped to the southeast of France, where he spent an idyllic few months away from his Paris apartment composing and seeking out culinary treasures at the wheel of his beloved eight-cylinder Ballot. A high point was a lavish brunch at the summer residence of soprano Nina Koshetz, who seated Prokofiev ac ...
... ped to the southeast of France, where he spent an idyllic few months away from his Paris apartment composing and seeking out culinary treasures at the wheel of his beloved eight-cylinder Ballot. A high point was a lavish brunch at the summer residence of soprano Nina Koshetz, who seated Prokofiev ac ...
Bach, Johann Sebastian - (1685-1750) Bach was a German organist
... respected among the people of this time. Composers were now able to create extensive innovative pieces with more dramatic context and huge formal designs. The Romantics believed in allowing their imagination and passions to create their works for them. Schubert, Franz - (1797-1828) Schubert spent mo ...
... respected among the people of this time. Composers were now able to create extensive innovative pieces with more dramatic context and huge formal designs. The Romantics believed in allowing their imagination and passions to create their works for them. Schubert, Franz - (1797-1828) Schubert spent mo ...
NASO April program notes - New Albany Symphony Orchestra
... development, the Ballet Russes worked on two other Greek-themed ballets. Among Fonine’s concerns was that more attention was being paid to another of these works, which was being choreographed by the superstar dancer Nijinsky; he was also angered by the prospect that costumes from another production ...
... development, the Ballet Russes worked on two other Greek-themed ballets. Among Fonine’s concerns was that more attention was being paid to another of these works, which was being choreographed by the superstar dancer Nijinsky; he was also angered by the prospect that costumes from another production ...
RODEO CHOREOGRAPHY BY AGNES DE MILLE MUSIC BY
... In its ABT Company Premiere, the pas de deux from George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes is an exuberant spectacle studded with tongue-in-cheek humor and dazzlingly virtuosic choreography, set to John Philip Sousa’s rousing marches. ALEXEI RATMANSKY WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Be ther ...
... In its ABT Company Premiere, the pas de deux from George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes is an exuberant spectacle studded with tongue-in-cheek humor and dazzlingly virtuosic choreography, set to John Philip Sousa’s rousing marches. ALEXEI RATMANSKY WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC BY DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Be ther ...
A Brief History of Ballet Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance
... Early classical ballets such as Giselle and La Sylphide were created during the Romantic Movement in the first half of the 19th century. This movement influenced art, music and ballet. It was concerned with the supernatural world of spirits and magic and often showed women as passive and fragile. Th ...
... Early classical ballets such as Giselle and La Sylphide were created during the Romantic Movement in the first half of the 19th century. This movement influenced art, music and ballet. It was concerned with the supernatural world of spirits and magic and often showed women as passive and fragile. Th ...
The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring (French: Le Sacre du printemps, Russian: «Весна священная», Vesna svyashchennaya) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky, with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. When first performed, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation and a near-riot in the audience. Although designed as a work for the stage, with specific passages accompanying characters and action, the music achieved equal if not greater recognition as a concert piece, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century.Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. The Rite was the third such project, after the acclaimed Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911). The concept behind The Rite of Spring, developed by Roerich from Stravinsky's outline idea, is suggested by its subtitle, ""Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts""; in the scenario, after various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, a young girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death. After a mixed critical reception for its original run and a short London tour, the ballet was not performed again until the 1920s, when a version choreographed by Léonide Massine replaced Nijinsky's original. Massine's was the forerunner of many innovative productions directed by the world's leading ballet-masters, which gained the work worldwide acceptance. In the 1980s, Nijinsky's original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the Joffrey Ballet in Los Angeles.Stravinsky's score contains many novel features for its time, including experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance. Analysts have noted in the score a significant grounding in Russian folk music, a relationship Stravinsky tended to deny. The music has influenced many of the 20th-century's leading composers, and is one of the most recorded works in the classical repertoire.