I’m an opera singer as well as a dancer, and I loved this video! Studied a lot of these composers when I was in college and actually wrote a term paper on Stravinsky’s “Petruska.” 😛 I have a theory about your thoughts on Prokofiev’s music for “Cinderella” and “Romeo and Juliet.” My thinking is that “Cinderella” is more on the dark and “earthy” side so the happier moments in the story stand out more, whereas “Romeo and Juliet” sounds more romantic and hopeful to make listeners forget for moment that the story is going to end tragically, making the final scene even more of a gut punch. I’d love to hear your insights on other composer’s music in more videos and, if you’re up for it, maybe hear you play some of their pieces on the piano! Love your videos Katie! ❤️
Didn't Prokofjeff in his beginning on academy create some most beautiful piano concerto and things on two-piano that were over the chamber music touch? As a young teenage ballet girl, I loved his sonatas, because they were so simple-at-touch - that I had them to my headphones in free time. Pps - also liked Hector Berlioz. There might be Antiqua recordings. Wonderful that you write upon that time. It's lovely period. I finished year three in automatical school on Arts Craft and Ballet Russes, but ended up in the Russian or Pre-Russian aera, because I was only in year one. Good improvement and luck for your former, first, and next diploma. We will all be pleased and aware to read , get in touch , pick a touch and see. (And of course we view). So much love ❤ and good wishes 😢😂
@@Star2Be5394 petrushka I learned from my mother in the only late 1970es years - I was so lucky and at help to construct my own petroucka, which was on ballet scene - the person so clouds, the person to only see that ballerina, that personal and private person who's not to begin in circus, otherwise likes the circumstances. For a singer, as I believe, there's no time in "Petrouchka". But as a narrator, probably in bass singing, you can reflect and control the time. I myself, as a ballet break-outer, a young ballet shift away and almost girl, very often drifted away with singers, and they inspired me, so often, that I inspired them. Do you take base-grounded to Petrouchka, he's only coming out of his box. If you think I got the jelousy on singers, I shift my head and go over the box. (Only the circus-man, probably a clown, knows where to get my head up high, my limbs are straight, but my body reflects). Petrouchka, also a doll, is watching this with jealousy. He's so jealous, that he can't reflect to his same way up. He's only watching the ballerina, as she turns, as she smiles, and he's like finding his chest to her. Nobody knows what the story ends, but this is for me the little telling of "Petrouchka". Pps I was very lucky to dance it again on school deliveries, when it was called "the name sur en petrouchka" - or "rechailli on sure dame grand reflechet" (reveriée).
Great insight Katie! Considering you've danced to pretty much of each of these composers works, its great to learn about how different their melodic stylings are.
Thank you for this, I loved hearing your insights😊. I would love to see videos on your deep dives into musicality, as you mentioned possibly doing at the end of this video ❤
Kathryn, I really enjoyed this video! I love how much information you gave, even including clips and photos of the various ballets you mentioned alongside their composers. My company did our own version of Sylvia a couple years ago but before that I only really knew the Royal Ballet’s version. Thank you for the wonderful video❤️
As a (former) viola player, I always appreciated that Adam used a viola for the pas de deux solo in Giselle. I agree that his score is so beautiful and haunting! That pas and the Romeo and Juliet pas are my favorite to watch and also listen to
My husband's (who is a composer) favourite bit in Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights is when the Poco piu tranquillo starts and the flute is playing its solo and is backed up by the downward glissandoing violas. He loves how Prokofiev uses the viola slide down with that flute.
Suuuuuper interesting. I already knew most of this, being a classical violinist, but I didn't know there was a ballet created out of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto in D, WHICH I PLAYED, and some other pieces mentioned here. I know a wonderful ballet - Ivan the Terrible - compiled from Prokofiev's music from the movie, the oratorio, and the 3rd Symphony. And I know of Queen of Spades ballet, where Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony is used by Roland Petit for his version. Of course, there is Tchakovsky's Queen of Spades opera, but I'm talking about Petit's Tchaikovsky 6th symphony Queen of Spades. Interestingly, I can't find anything about it in english, but if you search for it in russian you'll find it - Ролан Пети Пиковая Дама. And one of my absolute favorites is Rodion Shchedrin, a soviet composer, who did a ballet version of Bizet's Carmen. It is AMAZING. I grew up listening to this score and only later found out that it was originally a Bizet opera. My favourite performance version of the score to Shchedrin's Carmen is by Yuli Turovsky (a former teacher of mine, I'm proud to say) and his I Musici ensemble. I don't know if it's danceable though, since he does take quite swift tempos. But it is thrilling! Oh, and Shchedrin was married to Maya Plisetskaya, just some "minor" trivia.
Yes! I have always felt Cinderella was quite dark. There is something inherently mischievous and witchy about Prokofiev's Cinderella. I would love to see a choreographer lean into that.
There's another story Danilova tells in her autobiography about when she and Balanchine went to hear Rachmaninoff play his music, and went backstage to see him and gush over his work. Mr. B asked if he would compose for the ballet, and Rachmaninoff turned him down flat. Danilova wrote that she thought it was a missed opportunity for two great artists to come together! Balanchine and his brother both studied music at conservatory, and his brother went on to become a very famous composer in Russia (or Georgia). Cheers!
Yes, interresting! I'm suddenly out on to composer number 2, which both are beautiful - third occurs into ballet and the period of acting / dancing... Now since I'm back to Alexandre Dumas (the youngest? The eldest?) ballet is really out of fashion. How much to very interresting!
Also do you know about 2 more, that kinda contributed to ballet? They are Johann Strauss II and Jacques Offenbach. Do you consider them as ballet composers?
Mendelssohn, if I remember it that way, wrote music an ouverture, which probably was typical by that time (like Beethoven did that, or Franz Schubert did that). I don't know Ouverture with difference from Mozarts play on opera or perhaps on example Mendelssohn's or Schubert's, which was more on symphonic singing and taking the voice out "clear", while Mozart's ouverture keeps the music more "open", so you can open on any door, not only the voices in their stories leading - but this is a very personal part of view, how I divide (into) time, or pick off best what I get from both worlds, earthly and spiritual/intelligent, only with the provision not to do it...😂😂😂❤
Midsummer Night's Dream was created as incidental music for a stage play, not as a ballet. Chopiniana the same, not a piece he actually did with the intention of being a ballet. Not sure if you could consider them "ballet composers" since they did not have a close relationship with the artform.
I got to see the Nutcracker for the first time this year! It's just never worked out timing-wise before. I didn't realise that the ballet had changed the story, so I kept waiting for the tragic ending 😅 Do you know who composed the Alice in Wonderland ballet? I know it's not a classic at all, but it's probably my personal favourite.
It was choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and composed by Joby Talbot for the Royal Ballet. He also did the winter’s tale and like water for chocolate.
Please, Kathryn, if you can read a list on what pianist you are working in rehearsal? I wish I was not confused. With love And lovely wishes to... 😂❤ Pps you're beautiful.
Honorable mentions must go to the work horses 🐴 Drigo and Minkus who are behind some great moments such as Le Corsaire, Diana et Acteon, Dulcinea and fan variations in DQ and DQ and Paquita respectively. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇷🇴🇷🇺🇺🇦🩰
Everybody is absolutely in love with Minkus. (What was the first name, again? Oh, yes...) For Ludvig Minkus we take harmony, live, and direction. (Or clear voices, one piano and big problem)
@@isabelaandzico I would love to give this return, but happening out I clutched into the memorials by being on Chopin super-sophisticated acted, so I turn into Rimsky-Korsakov (or Glasunov) for a little while, untill I get my glory of full entrance. Thanks go we have got a light, and school memories are often more memories like the memories to returned.
I’m an opera singer as well as a dancer, and I loved this video! Studied a lot of these composers when I was in college and actually wrote a term paper on Stravinsky’s “Petruska.” 😛
I have a theory about your thoughts on Prokofiev’s music for “Cinderella” and “Romeo and Juliet.” My thinking is that “Cinderella” is more on the dark and “earthy” side so the happier moments in the story stand out more, whereas “Romeo and Juliet” sounds more romantic and hopeful to make listeners forget for moment that the story is going to end tragically, making the final scene even more of a gut punch.
I’d love to hear your insights on other composer’s music in more videos and, if you’re up for it, maybe hear you play some of their pieces on the piano! Love your videos Katie! ❤️
Didn't Prokofjeff in his beginning on academy create some most beautiful piano concerto and things on two-piano that were over the chamber music touch? As a young teenage ballet girl, I loved his sonatas, because they were so simple-at-touch - that I had them to my headphones in free time.
Pps - also liked Hector Berlioz.
There might be Antiqua recordings.
Wonderful that you write upon that time. It's lovely period.
I finished year three in automatical school on Arts Craft and Ballet Russes, but ended up in the Russian or Pre-Russian aera, because I was only in year one.
Good improvement and luck for your former, first, and next diploma.
We will all be pleased and aware to read , get in touch , pick a touch and see.
(And of course we view).
So much love ❤ and good wishes 😢😂
@@Star2Be5394 petrushka I learned from my mother in the only late 1970es years - I was so lucky and at help to construct my own petroucka, which was on ballet scene - the person so clouds, the person to only see that ballerina, that personal and private person who's not to begin in circus, otherwise likes the circumstances.
For a singer, as I believe, there's no time in "Petrouchka".
But as a narrator, probably in bass singing, you can reflect and control the time.
I myself, as a ballet break-outer, a young ballet shift away and almost girl, very often drifted away with singers, and they inspired me, so often, that I inspired them.
Do you take base-grounded to Petrouchka, he's only coming out of his box. If you think I got the jelousy on singers, I shift my head and go over the box.
(Only the circus-man, probably a clown, knows where to get my head up high, my limbs are straight, but my body reflects).
Petrouchka, also a doll, is watching this with jealousy.
He's so jealous, that he can't reflect to his same way up.
He's only watching the ballerina, as she turns, as she smiles, and he's like finding his chest to her.
Nobody knows what the story ends, but this is for me the little telling of "Petrouchka".
Pps I was very lucky to dance it again on school deliveries, when it was called "the name sur en petrouchka" - or "rechailli on sure dame grand reflechet" (reveriée).
Music inspires dance. Thanks for this segment!
I loved this video! Each piece brought back such great memories for me. Super informative and enjoyable content! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!❤️
Great insight Katie! Considering you've danced to pretty much of each of these composers works, its great to learn about how different their melodic stylings are.
Love this insight!
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Loved this ❤
Thank you!
I would love a series of this!
Thank you for this, I loved hearing your insights😊. I would love to see videos on your deep dives into musicality, as you mentioned possibly doing at the end of this video ❤
Thank you! I would love to do those.
So interesting!❤
Kathryn, I really enjoyed this video! I love how much information you gave, even including clips and photos of the various ballets you mentioned alongside their composers. My company did our own version of Sylvia a couple years ago but before that I only really knew the Royal Ballet’s version. Thank you for the wonderful video❤️
OMG I love this You dd it in such interesting way ve learned so much!!! thanks ❤
Super interesting! We can see how excited you are about the music. 🎼🎶🎵
"Hi lovely people!" Love it Kathryn. ❤ I'm a retired ballet dancer and also taught for 14 years.
Awww thank you! ❤️
Excellent. Cinderella is very dark. Magic has consequences in reality. The ballet shows the trepidation and instability in the moves.
As a (former) viola player, I always appreciated that Adam used a viola for the pas de deux solo in Giselle. I agree that his score is so beautiful and haunting! That pas and the Romeo and Juliet pas are my favorite to watch and also listen to
My husband's (who is a composer) favourite bit in Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights is when the Poco piu tranquillo starts and the flute is playing its solo and is backed up by the downward glissandoing violas. He loves how Prokofiev uses the viola slide down with that flute.
Suuuuuper interesting. I already knew most of this, being a classical violinist, but I didn't know there was a ballet created out of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto in D, WHICH I PLAYED, and some other pieces mentioned here. I know a wonderful ballet - Ivan the Terrible - compiled from Prokofiev's music from the movie, the oratorio, and the 3rd Symphony. And I know of Queen of Spades ballet, where Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony is used by Roland Petit for his version. Of course, there is Tchakovsky's Queen of Spades opera, but I'm talking about Petit's Tchaikovsky 6th symphony Queen of Spades. Interestingly, I can't find anything about it in english, but if you search for it in russian you'll find it - Ролан Пети Пиковая Дама. And one of my absolute favorites is Rodion Shchedrin, a soviet composer, who did a ballet version of Bizet's Carmen. It is AMAZING. I grew up listening to this score and only later found out that it was originally a Bizet opera. My favourite performance version of the score to Shchedrin's Carmen is by Yuli Turovsky (a former teacher of mine, I'm proud to say) and his I Musici ensemble. I don't know if it's danceable though, since he does take quite swift tempos. But it is thrilling! Oh, and Shchedrin was married to Maya Plisetskaya, just some "minor" trivia.
More please.
Katie ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😊
Yes! I have always felt Cinderella was quite dark. There is something inherently mischievous and witchy about Prokofiev's Cinderella. I would love to see a choreographer lean into that.
I've always love Nureyev's Cinderella set in 1920's Hollywood. Definetely has a bit of an edge in comparison to other versions.
There's another story Danilova tells in her autobiography about when she and Balanchine went to hear Rachmaninoff play his music, and went backstage to see him and gush over his work. Mr. B asked if he would compose for the ballet, and Rachmaninoff turned him down flat. Danilova wrote that she thought it was a missed opportunity for two great artists to come together! Balanchine and his brother both studied music at conservatory, and his brother went on to become a very famous composer in Russia (or Georgia). Cheers!
By the way quick quiz, where do each of each composers come from? Also, which musical era does each of these composers belong to.
Yes, interresting! I'm suddenly out on to composer number 2, which both are beautiful - third occurs into ballet and the period of acting / dancing...
Now since I'm back to Alexandre Dumas (the youngest? The eldest?) ballet is really out of fashion. How much to very interresting!
All romantic, except Stravinsky and Prokofiev who are belong to the modernist movement of early 20th century.
Глазунов, Пуни и Дриго.. 1.Раймонда 2.Эсмеральда, Сатанела, Дочь фараона 3. Арлекинада, Возрождение Флоры.
I second Glazunov
I would to hear about the iconic choreographers.
Where is the link?
Also do you know about 2 more, that kinda contributed to ballet? They are Johann Strauss II and Jacques Offenbach. Do you consider them as ballet composers?
Net.
They are so unfriendly with people they could not do any dance - personelly. Time requires harmony, of course. And the lighting us awful.
By the way would you go to Mao to get these ballet scores?
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Fabulous history! What about Mendelssohn for Midsummer Night's Dream? And Chopin for Chopiniana? Mendelssohn also wrote Joy to the World.
What about Johann Strauss II graduation ball and Jacques Offenbach Gaite Parisienne?
Mendelssohn, if I remember it that way, wrote music an ouverture, which probably was typical by that time (like Beethoven did that, or Franz Schubert did that). I don't know Ouverture with difference from Mozarts play on opera or perhaps on example Mendelssohn's or Schubert's, which was more on symphonic singing and taking the voice out "clear", while Mozart's ouverture keeps the music more "open", so you can open on any door, not only the voices in their stories leading - but this is a very personal part of view, how I divide (into) time, or pick off best what I get from both worlds, earthly and spiritual/intelligent, only with the provision not to do it...😂😂😂❤
@Danny-pd9ybtoo difficult.
I mean it's really, really, really difficult 🦒🦙
Midsummer Night's Dream was created as incidental music for a stage play, not as a ballet. Chopiniana the same, not a piece he actually did with the intention of being a ballet. Not sure if you could consider them "ballet composers" since they did not have a close relationship with the artform.
I got to see the Nutcracker for the first time this year! It's just never worked out timing-wise before. I didn't realise that the ballet had changed the story, so I kept waiting for the tragic ending 😅 Do you know who composed the Alice in Wonderland ballet? I know it's not a classic at all, but it's probably my personal favourite.
It was choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and composed by Joby Talbot for the Royal Ballet. He also did the winter’s tale and like water for chocolate.
@@rosyface_ Thank you!!!
Please, Kathryn, if you can read a list on what pianist you are working in rehearsal?
I wish I was not confused.
With love
And lovely wishes to... 😂❤
Pps you're beautiful.
A lot of flats and "wrong" harmonies in Cinderella.
Honorable mentions must go to the work horses 🐴 Drigo and Minkus who are behind some great moments such as Le Corsaire, Diana et Acteon, Dulcinea and fan variations in DQ and DQ and Paquita respectively. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇷🇴🇷🇺🇺🇦🩰
I kind love Minkus. Do you?
Everybody is absolutely in love with Minkus. (What was the first name, again? Oh, yes...)
For Ludvig Minkus we take harmony, live, and direction.
(Or clear voices, one piano and big problem)
@ LOVE ❤️ both! Rimsky-Korsakov and Khatchaturian for Scherarezade and Spartacus. Do you like?
@@isabelaandzico I would love to give this return, but happening out I clutched into the memorials by being on Chopin super-sophisticated acted, so I turn into Rimsky-Korsakov (or Glasunov) for a little while, untill I get my glory of full entrance. Thanks go we have got a light, and school memories are often more memories like the memories to returned.