Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goldcoasters will dance to the music of Art Shaw at their annual winter formal, scheduled for Friday, February 25. Dancing will be from 10.00 to 2.00 o'clock...
...that fairyland goosesteps up and down the streets in brown shirts. If Wagner, in his operas, sets will and strength above mere brains, thereby echoing the philosophy of his contemporary, Friedrich Nietzsche, his present-day German disciples have gone him one better. What to him was a theme for art and philosophy is to them a principle of practical politics. Realmleader Hitler is himself a rapt worshipper of Wagner's music. The Ride of the Walküre is one of his favorite entrance marches for big State occasions. Frau Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the late great...
Richard Wagner, unwitting backdrop-designer for Nazi heroics, wrote words as well as music for all his operas, created a revolution in stagecraft. Musically he influenced nearly every composer of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Inspired by the notions of ancient Greek dramatists, Wagner visioned a super-art in which music, the drama, the dance and painting were combined. For his music-dramas he created a whole new musical language in which tunes and chords (Leitmotive or "leading motives") represent ideas and personages. Events, motives, characters, situations are all identified by characteristic musical phrases. Their appearance...
Last autumn, when Choreographer Léonide Massine announced that he would leave the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for a more congenial job with World-Art, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 1), things looked bad for Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot...
...Biddle. Vanderbilt et al.) and White Russians thundered to the rescue. To the Obolensky-de Basil standard rallied white-haired Choreographer Michel Fokine, several of whose past creations (Don Juan, Les Eléments, L'Epreuve d' Amour) already studded the proposed repertory of the Massine-World-Art company. Besides the exclusive future services of Choreographer Fokine, the Obolensky-de Basil company acquires the bulk of the present repertory costumes and scenery of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; claims sole right to the use of the term "Ballet Russe" Both factions are proceeding to gird themselves...