Dress rehearsals for Danse Russe, my new operatic collaboration with Paul Moravec, start today. If you’re only just joining us, Danse Russe is a backstage comedy–yes, a comedy–about the creation of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. It opens in Philadelphia on Thursday night.
I don’t know whether I’ll have time to do any more blogging prior to the first performance. In case I’m too busy or preoccupied, I’ve already posted, in addition to a week’s worth of Stravinsky-related almanac entries, a series of relevant daily videos that I hope will divert you.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got work to do….
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For more information about Danse Russe, or to order tickets, go here.
To listen to an episode of WNYC’s Soundcheck in which Paul Moravec and I talk about Danse Russe, go here.
Archives for April 25, 2011
TT: Apropos of Danse Russe (I)
Pierre Monteux conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a 1961 performance of Paul Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Monteux conducted the first performance of The Rite of Spring in 1913 and is a character in Danse Russe:
TT: Almanac
“My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self of the chains that shackle the spirit.”
Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music