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Many times a great artist's first creation is his worst, Ivanov was Chekhov's first full length drama, and the author himself realized that it was filled with weaknesses. The play has seldom been performed in Europe, and the Brattle Company showed courage to give Ivanov its American premier. As a play Ivanov is poorly constructed. Some of the scenes approach melodrama; many of the lines are weak; and Chekhov had not yet mastered the subtleties of characterization that heightened the realism of his later works...
...drama herebeyond the simple one of prisoner and policeis that between one political generation and another. On the one hand are the pre-Stalinist revolutionaries, Rubashov and his cynical inquisitor Ivanovmen who only closed their minds after philosophy had opened them; who abandoned all morality for what seemed to them moral reasons; who were Communists enough to denounce pity, but men enough to understand it. On the other hand, there is the young, completely Sovietized Gletkin whose fanaticism signifies not intensity of feeling but all inability to feel, who is more mechanism than organism...
...symphonic poem, On the Other Side of the Araks, was written to celebrate the struggle of the people of southern Azerbaijan "with the Anglo-American imperialists in Iran." A Sixth Symphony, by one Janis Ivanov, had been inspired by the "difficult past and bright present" of the Latvian people (no longer harassed by political independence since their 1940 incorporation in the Soviet Union...
...expected, the company's real successes were its full-flavored, full-length performances of the three-and four-act ballet classics, the Tchaikovsky-Ivanov Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky-Petipa The Sleeping Beauty, which call for almost as much pantomime as dancing...
...Ivanov continued: "I committed everything knowingly . . . What inspired me to all this was fear-fear and faulty orientation regarding Communism ... It was my conviction that the Communist leaders must be suffocated and paralyzed . . . I expected the Communists to treat me severely, but they instead gave me this opportunity to lift the curtain...