Diaghilev was a prime mover in the strand of modernism in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, encouraging the extraordinary explosion of energy from artists such as Stravinsky, Debussy, Picasso, Fokine, Cocteau, Satie and Nijinsky. How did Diaghilev exercise his enormous influence? By what combination of personal authority and inspiration was he able to fulfil his ambitious plans? And what is the aim of leadership in the arts today, when there are no more Diaghilevs? Attempting to answer such questions, this book has been written with the aid of interviews with many of the leading figures in the Diaghilev circle. The author has been Director of the Edinburgh Festival, and also of Radio 3 and the BBC Proms.
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...a true contribution to dance history and a fitting tribute to a great man. -- The New York Times Book Review, Robert Gottlieb
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Fascinating interviews with contemporaries of Diaghilev,
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This review is from: Speaking of Diaghilev (Paperback)
How could any book about Diaghilev be boring? This was the man who brought Chaliapin in Boris Godunov to Paris then Pavlova, the man who originated more than 70 ballet productions with great performers like Nijinsky, great artists like Picasso, great composers like Stravinsky. John Drummond, who famously ran the Proms and the Edinburgh festival for many years, took on the project of filming a two part documentary about the great impresario in the 1960's but decided the interviews with his surviving co-workers were too good to waste and prints them in full. Every single one is a treasure trove for ballet fans. He bookends these interviews with, at the beginning, the full story of how he tracked down the living survivors of the Ballets Russe, and at the end a provocative and thought-provoking essay about the development of world ballet since Diaghilev's death , right up to Adventures in Motion pictures Swan Lake 1994. I read this book right through in two days, and I'm buying another copy to lend to friends. Absolutely superb, and some nice archive photos too.
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But who was I to care or know enough to get involved? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
choreographic talent, classical companies, imperial theatres, artistic policy, first ballet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Monte Carlo, Royal Ballet, New York, Ballets Russes, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Ninette de Valois, Les Noces, Sadler's Wells, Spectre de la Rose, Rite of Spring, Covent Garden, Les Biches, Boutique Fantasque, First World War, Arts Council, Les Sylphides, Lydia Sokolova, Sacre du Printemps, Sleeping Princess, Train Bleu, Marie Rambert, Sergei Pavlovich, Festival Ballet, Humphrey Burton New!
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- The Rite of Spring (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Igor Stravinsky on 7 pages
- Sleeping Beauty (Favourite Fairy Tales) by Charles Perrault on 5 pages
- Swan Lake by Margot Fonteyn on 4 pages
- Boris Godunov in Full Score (Rimsky-Korsakov Version) by Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky on page 11, and page 298
- Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on page 321, and page 351
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- The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation And Interpretation by Deborah Mawer on 4 pages
- Prokofiev's Ballets for Diaghilev by Stephen D. Press in Front Matter, page 90, and Back Matter
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Peter Hill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Routledge Dance Studies Reader by Alexandra Carter in Back Matter
- The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Rupert Christiansen on page 261
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