Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'ballet'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.
  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Board
    • Announcements and Technical Problems
  • Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback
    • Works with Few Reviews
    • Opt-In Works for Youtube
    • Orchestral and Large Ensemble
    • Chamber Music
    • Choral, Vocal
    • Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
    • Incidental Music and Soundtracks
    • Jazz, Band, Pop, Rock
    • Electronic
    • Incomplete Works; Writer's Block and Suggestions
  • Community
    • Masterclasses
    • Music Appreciation: Suggest Works or Articles
    • Composers' Headquarters
    • Repertoire
    • Performance
    • Advice and Techniques
  • Competitions and Collaboration
    • Competition Hall of Fame
    • Monthly Competitions
    • Collaborative Works
    • Challenges
    • External Competitions
  • Technological
    • Music Jotter
    • Music Notation Software Help and Discussion
    • Sound Libraries
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Introduction
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Ritual of Abduction
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Spring Rounds
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Ritual of the Rival Tribes
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: The Dancing Out of the Earth
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Augurs of Spring
  • Play this Passage's WHO PLAYS WHICH INSTRUMENT(S)
  • Play this Passage's HOW IT WORKS
  • Music and Media's Discuss and Collaborate on a Project
  • Young Composers Preludes and Fugues Project's Rules and Guidelines
  • Young Composers Preludes and Fugues Project's Submit a piece

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End


Last Updated

  • Start

    End


Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End


Group


MSN


Skype


Jabber


Yahoo


ICQ


Website URL


AIM


Biography


Location


Occupation


Interests


Favorite Composers


My Compositional Styles


Notation Software/Sequencers


Instruments Played

Found 3 results

  1. This piece was one of the pieces written for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. It wasn't the original piece to be played for that concert, so when I decided to change it had to be completed very quickly; I wrote this piece in 5 days. It's inspired by the otherworldliness of the International World's Fair in Paris of 1867; the first movement, "Ballet" contrasts the second "Le festival sauvage" in the initial discovery of the new world, versus the wild fun to be had, and the return home. It has its problems as a result of its quick deadline, but I think it's one of the most programmatic and passionate things I've written.
  2. To Me, this piece is the epitome of color; Impressionism at its best (although Ravel hated the term). Although Ravel called this piece a choreographic symphony, this is ballet. The "Part II Suite" is the most played "Egregiously named, it's the ballet starting at reh. 255). I recommend every composer buying and studying this piece!
  3. I was doing a bit of research on the French composer Erik Satie when I came across an incredible ballet by the composer called "Relâche." If I ask you to think of music by Satie, you would almost definitely think of the soothing melodic "Gymnopediès" that he wrote for solo piano. A lot of people in fact don't know Satie as well as they thought. Satie was an eccentric and strange composer, often employing techniques found in Dada art into his experimental performances of his highly original music. The title of this ballet in English means "tonight's performance is cancelled." If you put a sign with the word relâche written on it outside a theatre in France, the audience members would turn around and go home. This in fact was what most people did on the night of the first performance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The people who did make it into the auditorium were welcomed with a notice that told those music/dance patrons that if they didn't like the night's performance, they were entitled to f*ck off. The actual performance of the ballet (or more correctly, nonsensical Dada performance) was described as pornographic and (as usual with the Théâtre des Champs-Élyées) caused a riot. The ballet included someone carefully measuring the stage, a dancer placing a crown on a audience member's head, men in evening clothes, dressing and undressing and a huge amount of other surreal non sequiters. The was a film called "Entr'acte" that was shown in the intermission. It was also full of nonsense ideas and actions and used famous artists as actors. The music was also very experimental and confronting to those expecting something like the "Gymnopediès." Satie wrote small passages of persistent rhythmic music with the instruction to repeat the passage for the entire scene. The composer Darius Milhaud writes about the performance: "Relâche was given for the first time at the Théâtre des Champs Elyseés in 1924. It is on a book and with settings by Francis Picabia, a ballet in two acts commissioned and staged by the Ballets Suédois of Rolf de Maré, choreography by Jean Borlin, It was the height of the Surrealist period. Between the two acts there was an important innovation, a performance of René Clair's film Entr'acte with music by Satie. To the delight of spectators, Satie and Picabia appeared themselves in the film. The music of Relâche ranges from truculence of certain marching songs to the exquisite tenderness of the accompaniments to the dances of "La Femme." In the marvelous '20s, everything went, and the audience was not surprised at the end of the premiére of Relâche, to see Satie arrive on stage, to the acclaim of his cheering friends, in a little 5 horsepower Citroën car driven by Picabia." Here is René Clair's film Entr'acte on YouTube: This performance was also the last public appearance of Satie. A reviewer wished that Satie would die and go to hell after witnessing this performance.
×
×
  • Create New...