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... /Esthetic Athleticism AN ESSAY BY DEBUSSY NIJINSKY NOW that Nijinsky and the rest of M. Djaghiliew's troupe of dancers have graciously decided to let us admire them once again, curiosity is rife as to their new productions. About Stravinski's new ballet ...
... times. Certainly Debussy's quartet, No Tunc except, perhaps, in the last movement, is now as clear -as daylight to anyone at all familiar with modern music. And to us it seems merely funny that anyone should ever have thought that Debussy's music, which ...
... or opaque like English music, it does un doubtedly suffer at times from triviality of. ideals. Even the greater composers, Debussy and Ravel, are too much inclined to specialise in pretty little pieces to be played by pretty little ladies in pretty little ...
... never done herself full justice in London, tut in Paris she gives some exceedingly interestirg dance-programmes with music by Debussy, Ravel, Dukas, esc. ...
... spends a fortune on each production, which is always most artistically done-- Leon Bakst being responsible for the scenery, Debussy or Raoul for the music ...
... hoe and also A vice in Th, Wreckers J MISS PERCIVAL ALLEN AW An English soprano, who will create the part of Lia J/j) in Debussy's V Enfant Prodignc and sing other ..'/Jr important roles Doz>er Street Studios Photos ...
... two audi ences. He has not the advantages of his deriva tive Debussy, who has specialised in a kind of natural impressionism common to educated town-dwellers of both nations. Indeed, Debussy by his bold experiments in this direction, not to mention his ...
... good But to attempt to express the idea of Discord to ears which are begin ning to regard Wagner, Strauss, Tschaikowsky, and Debussy as harmonious needs a positively nefarious technique. The jumbling together of the National Anthems gave us a few moments ...
... say victor was Herr Schoenberg, whose Futurist music has proved too ugly even for those who have stood Strauss and endured Debussy. 1 do not care to express an opinion because I remember the time when Tristan was offensive to me and Brahms and Grieg wcic ...
... one asked oneself with mild interest Now where have I heard that before The score is full of Wagner, Puccini, elementary Debussy, and Gounod at his slimiest. If I had to single out the best number I should say that it was Petronius's song at the end of ...
... or strange. On the contrary. Strauss's harmony sounds definitely old-fashioned in comparison with that of Delius, Ravel, Debussy, or even Percy Grainger The trouble is that he strives to pour new wine into old bottles. He strains and tugs at the old harmonies ...
... bad. On the contrary, as music I liked some of it, and as for the rest well, it is very easy for those who are re writing Debussy and Strauss in 1912 to sneer at people who were somewhat too much preoccupied with Wagner and Brahms in 1887. Out of PI ace ...