. Programme. concertof the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 21, 1921. Thesoprano solo was sung by Laura Littlefield. The following description of the ballet is taken from an articleon Casella by Guido M. Gatti, published in that excellent magazineThe Musical Quarterly (April, 1920) :— Its music was written to a graceful plot in a seventeenth-cen-tury ambient by the poet Vaudoyer. In it appear tenuous, pow-dered, languid figures, against a scenic back-ground of parks, canals,and marble, moonlit palaces. Its dances are whimsical, slight love story supplies incidental embellishm
. Programme. concertof the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 21, 1921. Thesoprano solo was sung by Laura Littlefield. The following description of the ballet is taken from an articleon Casella by Guido M. Gatti, published in that excellent magazineThe Musical Quarterly (April, 1920) :— Its music was written to a graceful plot in a seventeenth-cen-tury ambient by the poet Vaudoyer. In it appear tenuous, pow-dered, languid figures, against a scenic back-ground of parks, canals,and marble, moonlit palaces. Its dances are whimsical, slight love story supplies incidental embellishment and is roundedout, thanks to the kindly intervention of Terpsichore and hernymphs, with whom the goddess dances against a Titianesque can-vas. The comedy is one in which choreography predominates; yethere and there sound accents of calm sorrow and sustained joy. f^^m:rW^^^&:\^^^^^^i ^m^Mm^mi^/^^^fm^^ MMOtlS^FdDMBIES (^ C(D INCORPORATED 3i WwmWMM^ S^TMEIBTjIBcOSir©^ ^^.^^^^m:\^^^^\^^^^,^^^^m\^^^.m^. one and the other felt by seventeenth-century hearts and voiced bymasked and powdered figures. Casella has the moving canvas givenhim, whose development is at times delayed by episodes of a comicflavor, with music to create which in his hands has achieved miraclesof grace; and his genius has been able to hold the balance betweenthe languid tenderness and the airy skepticism with which seven-teenth-century Venice was impregnated. The theme of the Bar-carola and that of the Sarabanda—which somewhat recalls that ofthe Suite—deploy themselves with genuine vocal breadth and swayin a dreamlike atmosphere: there is a breath of sensuality thatseems to be given forth by the summer night, over the black sweep-ing waters of the lagoon. Consuelos vocalized melody, flowingalong in the popular rhythm of the gondola song, overflows itsbounds of orchestral comment like one of those great carnivorousflowers of tranquil aspect which exhale the sharpest perfume ofmortal passion. In the quart
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