MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vaslav Nijinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Cor Anglais
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Hosted musical evenings each week in his apartment to listen to newest music. Provided the soundtrack for the operas and ballets. Wrote the firebird (1910: princes, magicians, forces of light/darkness. When at his summer home, people were still close to the earth, planting, Wanted to use the village music and put it into an orchestral score. During the opening bassoon solo many people didn"t know what the sound was: saint saens didn"t know what it was. Added grace notes to pieces: solution was to write for the modern orchestras in an unusual way. Ex: bassoon playing usually what english horn would. Believed in the artistic future of all things authentically russian. Wanted to create russia"s artistic future: found it in paris. Les ballets russes: had trouble finding the score so he left it in the hands of stravinski. Where diaghilev found an environment for russia"s artistic future. People were not ready for what was happening.
