Shostakovich's Ballets and the Search for Soviet Dance【電子書籍】[ Laura E. Kennedy ]

＜p＞The late 1920s and early 1930s were a pivotal moment in Russian cultural development: a time of uncertainty but also of openness and experimentation in the arts and especially in dance. During this period in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich composed three ballets--＜em＞The Golden Age＜/em＞, ＜em＞The Bolt＜/em＞, and ＜em＞The Limpid Stream＜/em＞--at a time when he was consolidating his position as Soviet Russia's preeminent young composer. His three ballets aimed at creating Soviet ballet, or works that commanded the technical legacy of the genre but that promoted contemporary topics and Soviet cultural policies. ＜em＞The Limpid Stream＜/em＞ proved hugely successful and was even staged as part of the 1935 celebrations for Stalin's birthday at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Six weeks later, however, the ballet was condemned, just a week after Shostakovich's opera ＜em＞Lady Macbeth＜/em＞ suffered a similar fate. Shostakovich never wrote another ballet. Shostakovich's ballets of the early 1930s occu．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る