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...concert concluded with the Divertimento from "Le Baiser de la Fee." Although this was the most melodic of the material played and the easiest to understand, it did not impress me much one way or the other. The writing is clever but essentially empty...
...Baiser de la Fee" was the big disappointment of the Tuesday program. Its music is early Stravinsky--in the composer's words, "after Tchaikowsky"--without the electric qualities of the great modernist's later work, over-gushy like the compositions of the earlier Russian Romantic but lacking their slick appeal. The story is Nineteenth Century and dull, the dancing, including that of Nathalic Krassovska as the Fairy and star Alexandra Danilova as the Bride, completely uninspiring...
...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...
...Baiser de la Fee (The Fairy's Kiss) tells how a baby is kissed by the Queen of the Fairies and parted from his mother. He grows into a handsome young man and falls in love. The Fairy reappears, kisses him again, and he follows her into the sea. Stravinsky meant the kiss to symbolize the bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when the Fairy...
Using what might be called the cream of the Boston concerts, Dr. Koussevitsky has made an unusually fine program for the Second Sanders Theatre Symphony concert to be held tonight. Stravinsky's orchestral music for the ballet 'Lo Baiser do la Fee" is the opening number, and is to be followed by Strauss's tone poem, "Don Juan", and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony. All three of these have been written within the last fifty years--the first in 1928 and the last in 1889--and their composers are still alive, but there is a world of difference between them. Only...