Crafting the Ballets Russes
Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Lehman Collection
Published on 25. June 2024
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-1-913875-67-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book celebrates one of the world's finest private gathering of music manuscripts, held on deposit at the Morgan Library. Robert Owen Lehman's superb collection of French and Russian ballet scores, including Firebird, Petrushka, Afternoon of a Faun, Bolero, and many more, are shown here for the first time alongside the vivid stage designs and rarely seen choreographic notations for these ballets. Together they offer a fresh view into Serge Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes troupe and its revitalization of ballet that roiled Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century. These influential ballets and their creators-composers Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, and Maurice Ravel, choreographers Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Bronislava Nijinska, and artists Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, and Natalia Goncharova-set a new agenda for European art. As the 1930s began, a new international era of modern ballet was underway.
Reviews / Votes
"An endlessly informative visual wonderland."-Hannah Lipman, Pointe Magazine"With beautiful images and accessible writing, this is recommended for readers interested in modern ballet of the early 20th century."-Sandra Rothenberg, Library Journal
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
120 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-913875-67-1 (9781913875671)
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Robinson McClellan is an assistant curator of music manuscripts and printed music at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. A composer, teacher, and scholar, he earned a doctorate in composition at the Yale School of Music and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. His writing has appeared in numerous arts journals including Liturgy.
Lynn Garafola is a professor of dance at Barnard College, New York. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of the seminal history Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1989) as well as a regular contributor of articles and essays to both scholarly and general interest publications. Her most recent book, La Najinska: Choreographer of the Modern (2022), has been widely acclaimed.
Marie Rolf is senior associate dean of Graduate Studies and professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Lynn Garafola is a professor of dance at Barnard College, New York. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of the seminal history Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (1989) as well as a regular contributor of articles and essays to both scholarly and general interest publications. Her most recent book, La Najinska: Choreographer of the Modern (2022), has been widely acclaimed.
Marie Rolf is senior associate dean of Graduate Studies and professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.
Content
Director's Foreword by Colin B. Bailey; Prologue by Marie Rolf; Diaghilev-Man of Music by Lynn Garafola; Crafting the Ballets Russes by Robinson McClellan; Checklist of the Exhibition; Ballet Music Manuscripts in the Lehman and Morgan Library Collections; Suggested Reading; Index; Acknowledgments; Credits