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...sts have put it on the boards with all the accessories of magnificent scenery, composers have made it familiar to the lovers of music in more than on... ...to display the astonishingly variety of their movements. "To this grand female ballet succeeded one performed by fifteen men. Some of them were old; b...

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...amed of. You will see tackling rise to such a high art, that it will surpass ballet in its pure poetic beauty. You will see foot races, tumbles. …... ... Fourthly… it is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain... ...vagant plumage and fancy birdlike costumes on stage, in movies, in operas, in ballet, in clubs. Human culture is obsessed with looking down upon th... ...e? What was the highest form of European culture for 100’s of years? It was ballet and opera. Singing like birds… humans trying to escape gravit... ...tesque. What was the highest form of love in the highest European culture of ballet? The dying swan. The obsession of watching a swan die, over, a...

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...uction and for the way the scheme is worked out,” the Count went on. “Most composers make use of the orches- tral parts in a vague, incoherent way, co... ...enable us to combine all these forces in accordance with their true laws. “Composers work with substances of which they know nothing. Why should a bra... ... maidens. “And here,” said Gambara, sadly, “there is one of those wretched ballets, which interrupt the thread of the finest musical tragedies! But Ma... ...ans who write grammars of harmony may, like literary critics, be atrocious composers.” “Then you do not like my music?” “I do not say so. But if, inst...

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...titutional spirit.” “Are you not bound,” said the Duchess, pointing to the ballet now being danced, “to find all our dancers detestable and our singer... ... right,” said she. “This mistake is the result of a tyrannous custom which composers are expected to obey. He was thinking more of his prima donna tha... ...ion put the house into a good humor again. Contrary to Italian custom, the ballet was not much at- tended to. In every box the only subject of convers... ...ave great physicians ceased to read men’s minds?” said she, jestingly. The ballet was long since ended; the second act of Mose was beginning. The pit ... ...ian has at his command, a more or less agreeable form of babble which most composers live in. We listen to their 67 Balzac strains, their would-be me... ...r, in a dream, listened to the most glorious strains, the ideas of unknown composers who have made use of pure sound as nature has hidden it in all th...

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...her, she recommended Franz to take the next best, if he wished to view the ballet, and pointed to the one behind her own chair. Albert was soon deeply... ...d to his previous survey of the house and company. The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, a... ...rly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumer- ary, are all... ...that but one mind, one act of volition, influ- enced the moving mass — the ballet was called “Poliska.” However much the ballet might have claimed his... ...es might be trusted, enjoying soft repose and bright celestial dreams. The ballet at length came to a close, and the cur- tain fell amid the loud, una... ...that she was an object of almost paternal interest to one of the principal composers of the day, who excited her to spare no pains in the cultivation ...

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...s. If I read fiction, let it be fiction; airier than hard fact. If I see a ballet, my troop of short skirts must not go stepping like pavement policem... ...He must lead us in a symphony. These light “champagne overtures” of French composers, as Mr. Fenellan calls them, do not bring out his whole ability:—...

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...music what Paganini is on the violin, Liszt on the piano, T aglioni in the ballet, and what the famous Garat was; at any rate he recalls that great si... ... write a French opera; he does not find in Italy the pecuniary gains which composers obtain in Paris. Here’s the letter I received yesterday from Beat...

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...tering La Force, a prison situated between the Rue Payenne and the Rue des Ballets, where he was placed in solitary confinement. The Abbe Carlos Herre... ... after a fatiguing pas seul, or one of those tremendous duets which modern composers inflict on the public. Malefactors are, in fact, so entirely bere...

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...i. Before I began the work I took time to consider of my plan. In a heroic ballet I proposed three different subjects, in three acts, detached from ea... ...cert; the frequent conferences I had had upon this fine art with the first composers, all seemed to prevent or dissipate a doubt of such a nature. Thi...

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...hen he might have begun his stud- ies afresh and held his own among modern composers, when he might have been, not certainly a Rossini, but a Herold. ... ...ally by wealthy admirers of feminine charms revealed by the costume of the ballet. Gaudissart and Company, who, be it said, made their for- tune, hit ... ...ld adapt or even compose a little music upon occasion, was a necessity for ballets and pantomimes; but the last management had so long been bankrupt, ... ...es, lest they should see the offences that needs must come when a corps de ballet is blended with actors and actresses, one of the most trying combina... ... the laws of supply and demand for the tor- ment of managers, authors, and composers alike. Every one esteemed Pons with his kindness and his mod- est... ...ned in consideration and kindly treatment. It was after the success of the ballet with which a run of success began for the Gaudissart Company that th... ...est, most commonplace fashion, in Strasbourg brasseries, in the company of ballet-girls of the Strasbourg theatres, and little Alsaciennes who had not...

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...to his nation. All the airs which the Hebrew maid selected were written by composers of her race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham... ...Mr. Mills, my rivle in Halbany; Mr. Macauly, (who wrote that sweet book of ballets, ‘The Lays of Hancient Rum;’) & the great Mr. Rodgers himself. “The... ...; and, law bless you! in three weeks from that time, she could look at the ballet as she would at a dancing-dog in the streets, 363 Burlesques and wo...