tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25672101.post951424376720762255..comments2023-12-18T01:10:39.910-05:00Comments on Willy or Won't He?: Salzburger Zeitung 2013 - Fourth EditionWillymhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03652532356102638621noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25672101.post-6633072290672352642013-05-27T19:12:23.216-04:002013-05-27T19:12:23.216-04:00The more I read about Nijinsky's choreographic...The more I read about Nijinsky's choreographic genius - and there's a good popular biography just out - the more I understand that the 'realisation' of the 'original' Rite must be a total travesty. It's all so tame; Nijinsky's work, by all accounts, was never that. And Stravinsky was emphatic, at least in 1913, that its novelty and earthiness matched the ferocity of his music. Does this one? Not a bit.<br /><br />We've just had Gergiev in Trafalgar Square conducting the LSO in the Symphonie Fantastique. Unfortunately they had to skip the Scene aux Champs because of the bus roars and helicopter drones...why not a pops concert of exquisite music by Chabrier and Delibes, say I. The Witches' Sabbath did at least raise an invisible roof. And the weather was glorious. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.com