Word: apollon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Igor Stravinsky (Fri. 4:10 p. m. CBS) directs the Turin Orchestra in his own Apollon Musagète, Jeu de Cartes by short wave from Turin...
...French school, died in 1863 after having fought for a lifetime against the flawless but colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery of the Louvre given to 19th Century French artists...
...York's Metropolitan Opera closed a month ago but one night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three premieres in one evening. Igor Stravinsky, who wrote all three, was on hand to conduct. His Apollon Misagete had never been danced in New York. Le Baiser de la Fee had never been danced in the U. S. The Card Party had never been danced...
...spare, straightforward, logical. When, in 1927. music-minded Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissioned him to write a ballet, he decided to make it "white." A "white ballet" does not use colored costumes or gaudy scenery, puts its emphasis on the dancing. Stravinsky was so anxious to keep Apollon Musagete free of color that he scored it only for strings...
...their highly individualistic ways, with occasional amusing collisions. That crowd is bound to be good, and it's quite a thrill for the radio fan to see all those disembodied voices step into the flesh, if only two-dimensional and black-and-white. On the stage we have Dave Apollon and his 1937 revue, is just like any other revue. The ventriloquist is very good...