Word: jeux
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...Serge Diaghilev, the legendary Russian impressario of the arts, who, among other things, presented the first performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre in 1913, with choreography by Nijinsky. Though he confessed that, because of a lot of schedule conflicts, Friday's program (L'apres-midi d'un faune and Jeux by Debussy: Scythian Suite 'Ala and Lolli' by Prokoflev: and Stravinksy's Les Noces) was not one of his more daring adventures. Thomas was justifiably excited about it: "...the figure of that man is monumental. It's just unbelievable the number of things he brought off!... The world needs more...
...enthusiasm and ability of the man who engineered it, Friday's Salute was less exciting than I had hoped. Presumably to avoid any overtones of pedantry. Thomas is quite casual in his commentary on the pieces: and the rambling result is often less than illuminating. Debussy's Jeux was the most complex work presented: and, as Pierre Boulez, who 'discovered' the work, lucidly notes. "Jeux marks the advent of a musical form which, instantly renewing itself, involves no less instantaneous mode of listening." Thomas excerpted several logical examples in attempting to facilitate the comprehension of this difficult genre of continuous...
...barely begun last week when, to the chuckles of the audience, out trumpeted the clarion call from Rossini's William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger's theme in bygone days). In the lugubrious second movement came some wintry wood wind chords right out of Debussy's Jeux...
...somewhat deeply with the esprit du corps, or the least bit in the world too frank in expressing their opinions, let us merely say, "Their manners, you know, are so delightfully natural!" In conclusion, however, we really must remind our excellent friends- however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions; and the outside and unrefined world are sadly apt not to take insult or invective, as we know it is given,- purely, in a Pickwickian sense...
Many of these fragile jeux d'esprit were done when, while staying at friends' homes, he amused their offspring with stories and images. As with Lewis Carroll, so with Andersen: children released him. He saw what the social assumptions of Victorian culture veiled from most of his fellow adults: that children, far from being the apple-cheeked, docile innocents their parents thought them, were monsters of imagination, able to look at other monsters with candid relish. (The tales collected by the brothers Grimm-not to mention some of Andersen's own-are packed with sadism and nightmare...