Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
When the great war was declared, Leo Stein, in Florence at the time, asserted that the day of the cubists, the futurists, and their ilk was at an end. “After the war,” he said, “there will be no more of this nonsense. Matisse may survive, and Picasso in his ‘early manner,’ but...
When the great war was declared, Leo Stein, in Florence at the time, asserted that the day of the cubists, the futurists, and their ilk was at an end. “After the war,” he said,...
2. Part 2Rimsky-Korsakow’s music is pretty well known in America. His _Scheherazade_ and _Antar_ suites are played very often; but his operas remain unsung here. Why? He wrote some sixte...
3. Part 3For any comprehensive view of the achievements of the organization, it is essential to remember that Mr. de Diaghilew’s Russian Ballet began in Paris as an art exhibition; that...
4. Part 4“When the curtain goes up we see M. Bakst’s design of a temple cut into a rock, with a glimpse of the sky seen through a cleft at the back, and in the middle a pool on which is...
5. Part 5My second personal impression is a memory of an evening a few nights later, when I attended a performance of Strawinsky’s earlier ballet, _Petrouchka_. _Petrouchka_ is another k...
6. Part 6Strawinsky seems to meet his problems according to their nature with an inevitable sense of the fitness of things. He has set, in _Petrouchka_, a story of the Russian fair; the...
7. Part 7Anita in _La Navarraise_ shares, along with Carmen and Santuzza, the honor of being one of the three rôles of her varied répertoire which Calvé was permitted to sing frequently...
8. Part 8It is a style particularly suited to the Russian Ballet performances; the effect makes a complete whole which those who have seen it cannot erase from the memory. Its practical...