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Æsthetic Athleticism: AN ESSAY BY; DEBUSSY & NIJINSKY

... /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 ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 424 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

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... DEBUSSY'S L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE SHOWING M. NIJINSKY DUE FOR PRESENTATION BY THE RUSSIAN BALLET ON MONDAY LAST. The Russian Ballet arranged to produce L'Aprfes-midi d'un Faune music by Claude Debussy, book by Stephane Mallarmd-- at Covent Garden, ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 43 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

MATTERS MUSICAL: SOME MODERN FRENCH MUSIC; A Delightful Concert

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 594 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Other

... enormously successful operatic tour in America and is over here for the season. Miss Teyte is perhaps the finest singer of Debussy's music in the world Underwood ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1913
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 283 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs 

IN THE GREAT WORLD: LÉON BAKST

... which he robes the marvellous Ida Rubinstein, the woman who is said to have conquered a composer, an author, and an artist Debussy, d'Annunzio, and Bakst. But it does not follow that Bakst is in love with the women he makes wonderful. His passion is design ...

Published: Wednesday 17 December 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1161 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

ABOUT THE HALLS POTT

... particular star of the Russian Ballet and is now at Drury Lane, is responsible for Jeux, which, with its music by Claude Debussy, was produced at Drury Lane the other night and has aroused very considerable controversy. Photograph by Dover Street Studios ...

Published: Wednesday 02 July 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1137 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

PARAGRAPHS PURELY PERSONAL: Records in the Exchequer

... perfect, octaves and staccato finger passages, and playing the piano pieces of his favourite composers Liszt, Chopin, and Debussy. In the afternoon he walks and gets other exercise in grass-cutting on the lawn and fields, always with his priceless hands ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1913
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 581 | Page: 54 | Tags: Photographs 

MATTERS MUSICAL: SINFONIA. DOMESTICA

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 667 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HATS TO

... Mid-Surrey, by one hole, in the final stage of the English Ladies' Cpen Championship. M. Leon Bakst, who is making designs for M. Debussy new ballet, Les Jeux, is anticipating what he thinks will be the fashions in 1925.-- Captain Glund, of the Zeppelin Company ...

Published: Wednesday 09 April 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 624 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUND THE THEATRES

... familiar in London of the so-called Dance-Poem, invented by the wonderful Nijinsky, and entitled Jeux. For this production Debussy composed the music. When the novelty was seen re cently in Paris its very bizarre setting a Post- Impressionist garden and ...