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Circus is a simple, romantic ballet, set to some suitable music by France's Jacques Ibert, laid in a village square of placardized baroque, and dressed in costumes that suggest the saltimbanques of Picasso. It is pretty and sweet, but not too sweet. As the play begins, Pierrot (Kelly) appears in his baggy white costume to open the program of a teatro circo, an Italian traveling circus. With the stilted gestures of mimetic tradition, he tells of his hopeless love for the leading lady of the troupe (Sombert), hopeless because she loves the daring aerialist (Youskevitch...
...quite a different and equally valid ideal. Unfortunately, composers have not yet shown what this might be. The two classical works on the program (by Beethoven and Haydn) were both transcriptions, and of the contemporary quintets played, only the Hindemith has serious merit, though three short pieces by Ibert offer facile pleasure by their eclectic and clever ideas. The fact that a work is a transcription need not condemn it, however; and the two performed by the Quintet proved to be first Yale. The opening Haydn Divertimento in B flat was especially pleasing. Each of its four short movements...
Though he is not well-known in the U.S., Jacques Ibert (rhymes with he bear) is one of France's best composers. U.S. music lovers may have heard his iridescent orchestral piece Escales (Ports of Call), but few knew him as an opera composer. Last week some 2,500 Americans listened to an Ibert opera and saw the composer in person...
After the first performance, Composer Ibert was happy indeed. So were his students and an overflow audience in leafy Tanglewood's theater-concert hall. Most found the plot of Le Roi, which had first been given in 1930 in Paris' Opera-Comique, pleasantly satirical to the taste, if a little unsubstantial...
...Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...