Word: kirstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been in the personnel. The orchestra has been reorganized, with the result that many of the less competent players are absent. In the chorus there are new youthful faces. The stodgy old ballet has been replaced by the new U. S. organization founded two years ago by Lincoln Kirstein and Edward M. M. Warburg (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). More care has been given to scenery, costumes, lighting...
...Lincoln Kirstein at 28 is a tall, tense, bold-faced esthete, rich because his father is vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard (class of 1930) young Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg, another rich man's son, started a Society for Contemporary Art, exhibited painting, sculpture, photography. As an undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky...
...medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely...
...Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate...
...Nijinsky is mad, cloistered in a Swiss sanatorium. Now Diaghilev is dead, his company disbanded. For its so-called successor, the popular Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Author Kirstein has limited respect. He freely grants talent to its maitre de ballet, Leonide Massine, to Ballerinas Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova. But his hope is centred on the new American Ballet, engaged this season for the first time to supply dancing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...