Word: oiseau
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...Franck's symphony came next, mystic, scarlet-tinged. Then came Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu sweeping its fantastic plumage through a maze of golden apples and silver trees, stripped a little of its diabolism, but gloriously exotic withal. There was the scherzo from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with its solo for Flutist Yeschke, new this season, and the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor, strident, barbarous, voluptuous...
...coloring and rhythms, however, are marvelous, and we are constantly hearing novel and piquant effects as in the trilling and warbling of the wind instrucments in the Cleopatra episode. It is interesting to note that the Rondo Infernale is a direct forerunner of the Katschei dance in Strawinsky's "Oiseau de Feu", and a good instance of the influence of master over pupil. Little wonder that "Mlada" is not well known. The scenic demands are enormous--from the Baltic to the Nile, as vast corps de ballet is needed to mime the spirits of the chief characters, and the score...
...this evening at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. The following selections will be read: Le petit roi de Galice, from "La Legende des Siecles;" Si tu veux, faisons un reve, from Wiradnus, in "La Legende des Siecles;" La Mort de Gavroche, from "Les Miserables;" Paris a vol d'oiseau, from "NotreDame de Paris;" La Chanson de Sophocle a Salamine, from "La Legende des Siecles;" Mugitusque boum, from "Les Contemplations." The reading is open to the public...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Le Petit roi de Galice, from la Legende des siecles; Si tu veux, faisons un reve, from Wiradnus, in la Legende des siecles; la Mort de Gavroche, from les Miserables; Paris a vol d'oiseau, from Notre-Dame de Paris; la Chanson de Sophocle a Salamine, from la Legende des siecles; Mugitusque boum, from les Contemplations; Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...
...French Reading. Selections from the Works of Victor Hugo: Le Petit roi de Galice, from la Legende des siecles; Situ veux, faisons un reve, from Wiradnus, in la Legende des siecles; la Mort de Gavroche, from les Miserables; Paris a vol d'oiseau, from Notre-Dame de Paris; la Chanson de Sophocle a Salamine, from la Legende des siecles; Mugitusque boum, from les Contemplations; Mr. Robert Dupouey. Sever...