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...must to all men, Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
...Leon Bakst, Slav decorateur who sprang into fame ten years ago with his scenes and costumes for Scheherazade and the Russian Ballet, will come to America in January to lecture (in English) on new ideas of form and color. Bakst's most recent triumphs include the Nuits Ensorcelées (Enchanted Nights) for the Paris Opera. He devised the plot, painted the scenery and selected the Chopin incidental music. Then Jacques Rouche, the director of the Opera, asked him to prepare a new ballet for next Spring, Folle Jeunesse (Mad Youth...
Both these artists depend upon color for their ultimate emotional expression, and Fish especially handles her medium with dashingly modern and exotic, not to say erotic, effect, combining it with glittering overlays of gold and silver and with rich arabesques of pen-and-ink design which suggest alternately Leon Bakst and the late Aubrey Beardsley. Hope Weston is more seriously thoughtful and mystic, in her endeavor "to visualize Khayyám as he appeared to his contemporaries-to study his mind before FitzGerald gilded his thoughts...
...been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve as a perfect model...
...Moderwell '13, has written a timely article on the new poets of scenery, with especial notice of Adolphe Appia. This man is as yet less well known than his contemporaries, Craig, Bakst, and Reinhardt, in spite of his work of inspiring and sustaining the modern movement. The illustrations of his scenes from the "Ring" confirms Mr. Moderwell's enthusiasm...