Posted on 05/25/2013 6:05:49 AM PDT by Borges
Classical Ping
Im in the naive and stupid contingent
This music was used in Fantasia to expound upon the theory of evolution.
Remember, this was in 1941.
Ping
In terms of the dance or the music? They don’t do it as a ballet anymore.
If you are familiar with Disny’s 1940 film Fantasia, the rite of spring was a prominent piece in the animated film.
Here’s a bit of the music that’s being discussed.
While Disney did a fantastic job of making animation, even if the subject is evolution, there was actually a hilarious (Italian humor) parody of the Disney segment in another animated movie, called Allegro Non Troppo, which used Ravel’s Boléro.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6aM7st6Xsw
This is the sort of thing that pointy-headed intellectuals and people who live off of the hard work of others worry about.
Those of us who work 18-hours a day to keep our small businesses going have many more pressing concerns.
IOW: Who Cares!?!
A Punk Pastoral?
You don’t listen to music?
Oh and btw, people musicians and dancers work just as hard as you do.
No wonder you are so cranky. ☺
What a silly thing to say.
People who work 18 hour days shouldn’t be on line showcasing their ignorance as a virtue.
Mrs Romulus who studied and danced at the professional level pronounces Sacre du Printemps challenging and satisfying from a technical pov. My own view as audience is that it’s a quaint period piece, desperately self conscious about its modernism.
I’m not a huge fan of dance but I find this music beautiful.
The choreography or the music?
No no no no no no.
The concept of modern dance came from Isadora Duncan, who was inspired by the painting and sculpture of ancient Greece. Duncan was already world famous - and living in Paris - when this ballet was staged. She had performed in Russia frequently, beginning in 1905, and her ideas had a huge impact on Stanislavsky, who became her close friend, and on the choreographer Fokine, and on the intelligentsia of Russia. Nijinsky had already seen her dance, and had also seen the work of Duncan’s brother, Raymond, who lived in Greece and was married to a Greek woman. Raymond Duncan had staged his versions of classical Greek plays in Paris that employed a chorus going across the stage in sideways motion, imitating the figures on Greek frieze paintings and ceramics. Nijinsky had seen that performance in Paris in 1908 or 1909, and that was the source of his inspiration for the choreography for The Rite of Spring.
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