The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-28
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enthusiasm quite inspiriting.
Whether q dwell with our
eyes on Mozart and tho children OF the
sunlight or press forward to the
gloomy shadows If those new aCa-
demic Cloistcrs wherein the philoso-
piers gravely split harmonic hairs and
tie the pieces crosswise to make
strange musical forms. you must al
init that "a fun blooded faith in an ar
tistic ideal is Il splendid thing. So let
us rejoice in that the Flonzaleys will
play S~travinsky's Three Pieces for
Quartet" ON Tuesday. S~travinsky
sent them this composition in manu-
script. Which goes to show that he
also had faith.
The work was written III 1874 ana
- Stravinsky's first incursion into the
ilcld Of chamber music. Information
nbou, it is supplied hy Ernst .\nser-
net. conductor al the Russian Ballet.
lie writes:
Though the term string uuartet
implies "A definite musical style. "A GER
tain manner of musical expression. to
S~travinsky ii merely signifies an OPP
portunity tn work out the acoustic
possibilities Of a certain family ~ mu-
steal instruments Where another
composer wuu.U uifset Il masculine
theme by "A feminine one. ~ contrast
al affirmative with al .~n;vrrosat.Ne
motive. s., Av!Usl.y ,s.ab..sLr. a ha,-
..nce .! FUN and truuuus somOrit.es ar
opposes the quality ~ tn, brilliant to
tina of the delicat. violin one.
AS regards the contents If thes.
thr,. shntt nlu\VDnlnt- th. .lrSt ,tn-
bodies the spirit "f the dance. the
third the spirit of religious melody.
while tn. second has been Developed
in thu region Of tt" unsteady Iantas-
tic. 1t is nbsulut" music in the TRUE
sense. that il. innocent of an. sus-
picion of u literary "r philos"pnic pro-
lramInc."
S;raN.ushy became known IN 1903,
when his "Schrrzu Symphoniuue' was
produced. After that Ii" began 10
conpose music for the l:ussian bal
lets. and in 1913 his "Saci du Prin-
temps brought out by Nijinst:. who
Is coming here with Tn" great l.uss!an
bale; for the last weeks OF IL" opera
season. was the cause Of much excited
debate and 40 little bitterness. Eut II
concert performance of the music
curiously enough seemed to remove
the doubts of some who had found 1t
distastcful in the theatre.
some of S~,ravinsky's ballots will te
gwen here toward the end OF the Wit.
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