RAKA IN ITS LITERARY, MUSICAL AND SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT
... the poem was finished. She also recalled that Raka had been finished for quite a while before it was published (Van Rensburg 1990: 50-51). Louw’s brother, W. E. G. Louw contradicted this story in one of his radio interviews. According to him, Louw had to postpone work on Raka in 1940 in order to ful ...
... the poem was finished. She also recalled that Raka had been finished for quite a while before it was published (Van Rensburg 1990: 50-51). Louw’s brother, W. E. G. Louw contradicted this story in one of his radio interviews. According to him, Louw had to postpone work on Raka in 1940 in order to ful ...
Surrealism is a term that has been used in connection with Olivier
... l’Enfant Jesus (1944). In all cases the convulsive beauty of the works themselves it at odds with the manifest orthodox religious ideological ground-base underpinning the composer’s speculative thinking. It might appear that, like Gerard de Nerval and J-K. Huysmans before him, Messiaen pushed beyond ...
... l’Enfant Jesus (1944). In all cases the convulsive beauty of the works themselves it at odds with the manifest orthodox religious ideological ground-base underpinning the composer’s speculative thinking. It might appear that, like Gerard de Nerval and J-K. Huysmans before him, Messiaen pushed beyond ...
ORANGES
... some time, and their encounter moved Prokofiev to take stock of their relationship. That evening he penned an uncharacteristically sober passage in his journal, admitting that “the successes and honors that Stravinsky enjoyed in the West were so superior to my own that it always seemed to me that I ...
... some time, and their encounter moved Prokofiev to take stock of their relationship. That evening he penned an uncharacteristically sober passage in his journal, admitting that “the successes and honors that Stravinsky enjoyed in the West were so superior to my own that it always seemed to me that I ...
Guide to the Repertory
... Balanchine traveled to America at Kirstein’s invitation, and in 1934 the two men ...
... Balanchine traveled to America at Kirstein’s invitation, and in 1934 the two men ...
Guide to the Repertory
... works and creating a company of dancers renowned for their linear purity, sharpness of attack, and overall speed and musicality. Following Balanchine’s death in 1983, Robbins and Peter Martins were named Co-Ballet Masters in Chief, and since 1990 Martins has had sole responsibility for the Company’s ...
... works and creating a company of dancers renowned for their linear purity, sharpness of attack, and overall speed and musicality. Following Balanchine’s death in 1983, Robbins and Peter Martins were named Co-Ballet Masters in Chief, and since 1990 Martins has had sole responsibility for the Company’s ...
Stravinsky - SFP Online!
... F. The Russian period is generally characterized by three major works; all ballets and all for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. They are, chronologically, The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring. All of the works from this period draw heavily on Russian folk music, much like Bartok’s music did. G. ...
... F. The Russian period is generally characterized by three major works; all ballets and all for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe. They are, chronologically, The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring. All of the works from this period draw heavily on Russian folk music, much like Bartok’s music did. G. ...
Aloys Fleischmann`s Ballet Music
... various aspects of the Irish experience in three of the four he composed for the Cork company culminated in his final ballet score, the Táin, written for the Irish Ballet Company in 1981. Based on the Táin Bó Cuailnge [The Cattle Raid of Cooley], the twelfth century account of the exploits of Cuchul ...
... various aspects of the Irish experience in three of the four he composed for the Cork company culminated in his final ballet score, the Táin, written for the Irish Ballet Company in 1981. Based on the Táin Bó Cuailnge [The Cattle Raid of Cooley], the twelfth century account of the exploits of Cuchul ...
theatre “Russian Ballet” - texoart
... repertoire allows guest soloists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters to perform with the troupe. In addition to these world renowned headliners audiences have enjoyed watching dancers whose careers have developed with the Company. The Company presents over 300 shows annually in Russia and abroad ...
... repertoire allows guest soloists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters to perform with the troupe. In addition to these world renowned headliners audiences have enjoyed watching dancers whose careers have developed with the Company. The Company presents over 300 shows annually in Russia and abroad ...
Igor Fydorovitch Stravinsky
... f. Wealthy philanthropist/conductors such as Leopold Stokowski and Serge Koussevitsky. 3. Stravinsky was Russian born, but he held French citizenship and later American citizenship 4. Stravinsky was an active conductor, mostly of his own music, as well as a composer. He was also a writer. His most f ...
... f. Wealthy philanthropist/conductors such as Leopold Stokowski and Serge Koussevitsky. 3. Stravinsky was Russian born, but he held French citizenship and later American citizenship 4. Stravinsky was an active conductor, mostly of his own music, as well as a composer. He was also a writer. His most f ...
Saint - SMOLART
... repertoire allows guest soloists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters to perform with the troupe. In addition to these world renowned headliners audiences have enjoyed watching dancers whose careers have developed with the Company. The Company presents over 300 shows annually in Russia and abroad ...
... repertoire allows guest soloists from the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters to perform with the troupe. In addition to these world renowned headliners audiences have enjoyed watching dancers whose careers have developed with the Company. The Company presents over 300 shows annually in Russia and abroad ...
Copland Jeopardy - Lebanon Valley College
... Copland wrote the music to this ballet about a cowgirl who finally wins the affection of a cowboy when they dance together at a hoedown. ...
... Copland wrote the music to this ballet about a cowgirl who finally wins the affection of a cowboy when they dance together at a hoedown. ...
Audience Guide - Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
... most of the credit, as dance historian Doug Fullington says, because “he gave it the most years.”* The 1899 version is also recorded in Stepanov notation, a system for documenting ballet choreography, and so we know what Petipa included in the ballet then. All modern productions— though updated, cha ...
... most of the credit, as dance historian Doug Fullington says, because “he gave it the most years.”* The 1899 version is also recorded in Stepanov notation, a system for documenting ballet choreography, and so we know what Petipa included in the ballet then. All modern productions— though updated, cha ...
Aldo Ciccolini, 89 Virtuoso pianist shed light on the underappreciated
... Aldo Ciccolini, 89 Virtuoso pianist shed light on the underappreciated by Anne Midgette ...
... Aldo Ciccolini, 89 Virtuoso pianist shed light on the underappreciated by Anne Midgette ...
Program Notes: Don Quixote
... from which they could help themselves as required, in which they arbitrarily did as they pleased, having the right here to wrench out a chunk of rock, there to add an ashlar. Thus the score, forming the basis for the present recording, can scarcely any longer be judged by criteria of autonomy and ae ...
... from which they could help themselves as required, in which they arbitrarily did as they pleased, having the right here to wrench out a chunk of rock, there to add an ashlar. Thus the score, forming the basis for the present recording, can scarcely any longer be judged by criteria of autonomy and ae ...
Don Quixote Program Notes
... from which they could help themselves as required, in which they arbitrarily did as they pleased, having the right here to wrench out a chunk of rock, there to add an ashlar. Thus the score, forming the basis for the present recording, can scarcely any longer be judged by criteria of autonomy and ae ...
... from which they could help themselves as required, in which they arbitrarily did as they pleased, having the right here to wrench out a chunk of rock, there to add an ashlar. Thus the score, forming the basis for the present recording, can scarcely any longer be judged by criteria of autonomy and ae ...
Francis Poulenc Suite from the ballet “Les Biches” FRANCIS
... determined the new hard-edged fashionable style. Working with Bronislava Nijinska, Nijinsky’s sister, as choreographer and Marie Laurencin as designer, Poulenc composed the score in Touraine in the summer of 1923. Their idea was to be a ballet without a story, simply a series of dances which take pl ...
... determined the new hard-edged fashionable style. Working with Bronislava Nijinska, Nijinsky’s sister, as choreographer and Marie Laurencin as designer, Poulenc composed the score in Touraine in the summer of 1923. Their idea was to be a ballet without a story, simply a series of dances which take pl ...
Barnaby Rayfield, FANFARE
... embraced most musical developments; atonality and five-part chords work alongside conventional tonality in his musical background. Such blatant eclecticism is unfashionable in the composing world, but it helps explain his interest in writing music to specific works of art, which, according to the bo ...
... embraced most musical developments; atonality and five-part chords work alongside conventional tonality in his musical background. Such blatant eclecticism is unfashionable in the composing world, but it helps explain his interest in writing music to specific works of art, which, according to the bo ...
suites - Boson Mo
... By wizened age of 14, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) was already an accomplished violist, pianist, and composer to over 100 short pieces. Considered one of England’s most significant composers, Britten’s works cover genres ranging from miniature chamber works to full-scale operas. He studied at the Roya ...
... By wizened age of 14, Benjamin Britten (1913-76) was already an accomplished violist, pianist, and composer to over 100 short pieces. Considered one of England’s most significant composers, Britten’s works cover genres ranging from miniature chamber works to full-scale operas. He studied at the Roya ...
Pyotr Il`yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
... who were more interested in the dancers than the opera. That era may have had great dancers, but the music was “singularly poor.” When audiences encountered Tchaikovsky’s richly-composed music for ballet, they didn’t know what to make of it. Nearly ten years after Tchaikovsky wrote his first ballet, ...
... who were more interested in the dancers than the opera. That era may have had great dancers, but the music was “singularly poor.” When audiences encountered Tchaikovsky’s richly-composed music for ballet, they didn’t know what to make of it. Nearly ten years after Tchaikovsky wrote his first ballet, ...
Works of Scriabin, Chopin, Ravel, and Prokofiev
... didn’t mount La Valse. Listening to the piece, one can imagine the way the dancers would drift onstage at the beginning, coalescing and gradually starting to sway and spin as the music morphs into a waltz. But this is not a Viennese waltz circa 1870; this is 1920, immediately after the First World W ...
... didn’t mount La Valse. Listening to the piece, one can imagine the way the dancers would drift onstage at the beginning, coalescing and gradually starting to sway and spin as the music morphs into a waltz. But this is not a Viennese waltz circa 1870; this is 1920, immediately after the First World W ...
MARIUS PETIPA 1819-1910 French by birth, Marius Petipa was first
... 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 for 34 operas. The number is impressive, but audience ...
... 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 for 34 operas. The number is impressive, but audience ...
Poznámky k festivalovému programu Hradec Králové - Jan
... underlying fundament in Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu. Subtitled ballet noir, it constitutes a direct counterpart to Présence, subtitled ballet blanc. Both ballets – blanc and noir – may be seen rather as imaginary scenes. On the other hand, the Concerto en forme de „pas de trois“ is conceived ...
... underlying fundament in Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu. Subtitled ballet noir, it constitutes a direct counterpart to Présence, subtitled ballet blanc. Both ballets – blanc and noir – may be seen rather as imaginary scenes. On the other hand, the Concerto en forme de „pas de trois“ is conceived ...
Portrait concert Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Jan
... underlying fundament in Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu. Subtitled ballet noir, it constitutes a direct counterpart to Présence, subtitled ballet blanc. Both ballets – blanc and noir – may be seen rather as imaginary scenes. On the other hand, the Concerto en forme de „pas de trois“ is conceived ...
... underlying fundament in Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu. Subtitled ballet noir, it constitutes a direct counterpart to Présence, subtitled ballet blanc. Both ballets – blanc and noir – may be seen rather as imaginary scenes. On the other hand, the Concerto en forme de „pas de trois“ is conceived ...
Study Guide - New York Theatre Ballet
... the court dances grew in size, opulence and grandeur to the point where performances were presented on elevated platforms so that a greater audience could watch the increasingly pyrotechnic and elaborate spectacles. From Italian roots, ballets in France and Russia developed their own stylistic chara ...
... the court dances grew in size, opulence and grandeur to the point where performances were presented on elevated platforms so that a greater audience could watch the increasingly pyrotechnic and elaborate spectacles. From Italian roots, ballets in France and Russia developed their own stylistic chara ...
NASO April program notes - New Albany Symphony Orchestra
... A three-part scenario was devised, with Ravel’s input, for the Ballets Russes production. The setting is the Eastern Aegean Island of Lesbos, where, on a spring afternoon, young people lay gifts before statues of nymphs. Goatherd Daphnis and shepherdess Chloé join them. Dorcon, another herdsman, ch ...
... A three-part scenario was devised, with Ravel’s input, for the Ballets Russes production. The setting is the Eastern Aegean Island of Lesbos, where, on a spring afternoon, young people lay gifts before statues of nymphs. Goatherd Daphnis and shepherdess Chloé join them. Dorcon, another herdsman, ch ...
Mercure (ballet)
Mercure (Mercury, or The Adventures of Mercury) is a 1924 ballet with music by Erik Satie. The original décor and costumes were designed by Pablo Picasso and the choreography was by Léonide Massine, who also danced the title role. Subtitled ""Plastic Poses in Three Tableaux"", it was an important link between Picasso's Neoclassical and Surrealist phases and has been described as a ""painter's ballet."" Mercure was commissioned by the Soirées de Paris stage company and first performed at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Paris on June 15, 1924. The conductor was Roger Désormière.