Word: pulcinella
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...Rite, Stravinsky narrowed down to spare and unusual combinations of instruments and voices. Les Noces, composed between 1914 and 1917, was scored for four vocal soloists, chorus, four pianos and percussion. In 1918 came L'Histoire du Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity but also...
...very greatest works- Petrouchka. Le Sacre du Printemps, Les Noces, Pulcinella. Apollo, Symphony of Psalins, the Mass, and the incomparable, Igon-Igor Stravinsky never yielded to the "luxurious gloom of choice" which has afflicted so many artists of this century. He pulls the mind of man above itself by the renovation of new rules. In this last book he laughs life into lucidity, he laughs the world into health. It is now an old man's laughter, pungent, compassionate, never self-serving...
...faded and diffuse instead of directed towards precise statement. The work of an eclectic laborer cannot possess independent life, whereas the work of the derivative artist cannot possess anything else. This was what T.S. Eliot meant when he said that immature poets borrow while mature poets steal. Stravinsky's Pulcinella is derivative, Poulenc's Gloria eclectic...
...Spring unleashed a cacophony of sound that set its first Paris audience to pummeling one another with fists and canes. But within a mere ten years all three works were becoming accepted in the contemporary musical language, and Stravinsky boldly moved on to a new, dry, precisely turned style-Pulcinella, Oedipus Rex, Apollon Musagetes-that had little relation to the earlier, gaudily splashed Russian effects...
...Second Programme, July 25 Under the direction of Bernard Zighera Toccata, Bouree, and GigaScarlatti-Casella Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Shubert I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme, August 1 The Boston Society of Ancient Instruments Alfred Zighera, Director La Sultane...