Modernism – Ballet Thursday‚ May 22 Announcements and Reminders Concert reports due no later than today Paper due date: Tuesday‚ June 3 Final: Not cumulative (starts after Beethoven) Wed.‚ June 11‚ 12-2pm Similar format as midterm Study guide to come next week Outline I. Late Romantic Ballet (traditional) a. Tchaikovsky – Sleeping Beauty II. Music in the Age of Modernism: The 20th Century III. Modern Ballets a. Debussy – Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Late Romantic Ballet Peter
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Swan Lake is a ballet about a princess that gets turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse. I was really glad to finally watched Swan Lake since I have heard so many allusions to it and know it as one fo the great ballet classics. I have read about an all-male Swan Lake adaptation done in London but have not had the opportunity to watch the original let alone its edigier‚ more innovative versions. Around the stage. On the other hand‚ I saw a lot of mistakes in Palma’s routine and was disappointed
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yet the world of music was still set in their generally Romantic ways. It took a true compositional giant to rock the world of music forever‚ and such a piece of music came on May 23rd‚ 1913 with Igor Stravinsky’s strikingly famous ballet The Rite of Spring. The ballet premiered in Paris‚ and the performances primitive dance moves‚ dark music‚ and somewhat scary demeanor sent the audience into a full blown riot‚ and simultaneously into a whole new era of music. The Rite of Spring is undoubtedly one
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From Ballet to Modern Dance Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish decent of the 20th Century. He was born on March 12‚ 1889 and died on April 8‚ 1950. He is commonly known to be the best male ballet dancer of his time. He was introduced to dance early on by his parents‚ who were also dancers. His sister‚ Bronislava Nijinska was also a dancer and worked with Vaslav Nijinsky throughout his career. Although he began dancing at a very young age and often played the lead
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Li was only a young boy‚ he was selected to study at the Begjin dance academy to learn to be a dancer. When arrived in Begjin‚ the children right away started ballet trainin‚ they were also given education but the main focus was studying to be a ballerina. Li was then chosen to visit America for three months to train with the Houston ballet Academy. Li then fell in love with an American girl‚ Liz‚ and also America. Li is with the Chinese communist and is required to return except if he gets married
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sentiments of ballet by challenging conventional expectations of the past‚ transforming the work into the acclaimed masterpiece and milestone in ballet it is today. II. Stravinsky- brief background of life up until the premiere of The Rite of Spring A. Birth and Life in Russian Empire 1. Family 2. Musical Influences a) Mussorgsky b) Rimsky-Korsakov c) Glazunov d) Wagner 3. Law school and Nikolai Rimsky-Korskov 4. First orchestral works and Commission by Diaghilev a) Firebird‚ first ballet score
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Robbins 1918-1998 Jerome Robbins is known as a world-renowned choreographer of ballets created for the New York City Ballet‚ Ballets U.S.A.‚ American Ballet Theatre‚ and other international companies. In addition he also received recognition for his work don’t in commercial theater. He was a director of musicals‚ plays‚ and movies and television programs. This dual interest produced a staggering number of ballets and staging of musical plays‚ notable for their diversity‚ brilliance‚ lyric beauty
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when she was eight years old‚ and there she was able to train in ballet with professional dancers such as David Lichine and Bronislava Nijinska. Tallchief’s career really boosted when she met the infamous Russian-born choreographer George Balanchine. Balanchine made Tallchief into the first star of the New York City Ballet and the first prima ballerina of the United States (“Maria Tallchief”‚ UXL Biographies). Tallchief starred in ballets choreographed by Balanchine‚ such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker;
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Nutcracker‚ the music is very different. Knowing time period these two ballets were written in I sort of expected it. The Nutcracker has a lot of musical melodies and themes from the Romantic Period. The Rite of Spring has very aggressive dynamics and very sharp rhythms. The music in The Nutcracker helps the audience set a tone and understand the season that the performance is taking place in as well as what is going on in during the ballet. The music in The Rite of Spring also helps set a tone to the audience
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Everyone in the world has grown up on Disney. Whether a person is a toddler or an elderly person‚ they have‚ at least heard of Disney. One thing that Disney is known for is having family friendly movies with phenomenal musical scores. A movie that will possibly stick out to older people would be Fantasia. This movie is famous for adding a motion picture storyline to classical music. Disney spared no expense in utilizing music from the best composers of all time. Some compositions were written by
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