Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Critics, offering comprehensive reasons for his immortality, saw no prospect of his music's passing. Said the "Trenton Tough," George Antheil, he of the "Ballet Mecanique" and the panic-striking propeller (TIME, March 21) : "Beethoven is my hero especially on account of form." Said Music Critic William James Henderson: "The supremacy of tone art lay for him [Beethoven] in the identity of form and substance, of matter and embodiment...
Manhattan knows Paul Claudel because the Swedish Ballet Company danced his Man and His Desire just off blatant Broadway, three years ago; and recently the Theatre Guild produced his Tidings Brought To Mary...
...best known symphony, "Ballet Mécanique," nearly precipitated a riot in Paris. The weird whirr of wood, rubber, steel was radical enough to set the audience howling with conflicting passions of admiration and disgust. But, in addition, the propeller was placed facing them. When it started its great whirling, thereby affording the symphony a sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone...
After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
...give the most pleasure, and which on Monday night brought her back time and again for the applause of an audience which did not need to recall its French in order to be appreciative. Add to these songs the dance, which shows her substituting for the gentleman from the ballet, impudently demonstrating how she, or rather he Mozart, wishes it done, and the pleasure of the audience is explained...