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2019258686New York: Metrosource Publishing 2019. Magazine. 68p. 8x10.75 inches articles reviews interviews books mvies music travel fashion ads very good glossy magazine in pictorial wraps. marcos Martinez on Why America needs Black Pride Celebrations. Interview with the first Out gay Presidential candidate a fellow Hoosier! Travel reporting from Australia NY LA Portugal Spain & France. Metrosource Publishing unknown books
1983185046San Francisco: San Francisco Opera House and Sheldon Soffer Management 1983. handbill leaflet. 8.5x11 inch handbill printed both sides on semi-glossy stock. Publicity handbill for the all-male ballet troup with cover photo by John L. Murphy two dancers in a dying swan pose and reviews from the New Yorker and LA Times back panel with two smaller b&w photos of the company with dozens of review quotes and performance schedule below. San Francisco Opera House and Sheldon Soffer Management unknown books
199728310Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum and Yale University Press 1997. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Tall thick paperbound quarto. 352 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. This book documents the Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs Costumes and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum. An impressive work. Price sticker to rear cover. A handsome near fine copy. Very heavy volume. Wadsworth Atheneum and Yale University Press paperback books
194926970Paris France: Ballets De Paris 1949. 24 pages; illustrated in color and black and white by Leonor Fini & Antoni Clavie also with photos of performers; French text. Laid-in is a two-sided printed Programme des 19 20 et 22 Aout performances. Guide is approx. 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" size; illustrated glassine overwrap over softcover with titles in blue & white spine with decorative white silk cord; white & blue cover titles. Closed edge-tear to glassine; old fold-crease to back cover & a few inner leaves; in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Illus. by Leonor Fini. Ballets De Paris paperback books
246910New York vd. 3 vols. Fine. 3 vols. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was an influential ballet company founded by René Blum and Colonel Vassily de Basil in 1933. The company followed Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. unknown books
0466<br/><br/>Magny maitre de danse. Principes de la choregraphie. Geneve: Editions Minkoff 1980 Facsimile reprint of the original which was completely engraved when published in Paris 1765. 8vo. Wrapper. Fine. 243pp.<br/><br/>Magny's Principes de Choregraphie is an important book for understanding the teaching of dance notation in the baroque period. Magny gives a detailed yet simplified explanation of the Feuillet method and also describes the steps for six ballroom dances including Le Quadrille a cotillion. Illustrated especially composed for learning steps and patterns. His method is considered an "abbreviated method for easily knowing the contredanses without their steps having to be written down." Sowell. Little is known of Claude Marc Magny 1676-1727 save for the important fact he studied under Pierre Beauchamps. unknown books
19302043Ballets Russes Georges-Michel Michel; Waldemar George; and Nathalie Gontcharova. <b>Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew par Michel Georges-Michel Waldemar George / Le Costume Théatral par Nathalie Gontcharova</b>. Paris: Pierre Vorms 1930. First Edition First Printing. <br /><br />Small Quarto 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 inches; 270 x 185 mm 31 1 pages in printed wrappers. <br /><br />A sumptuously illustrated tribute to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes issued in 1930 one year after his death. Diaghilev rendered here as Diaghilew created one of the world's most innovative ballet and opera companies and hired some of the greatest artists of the 20th century to design sets and costumes. <br /><br />Artists represented here include Picasso Laurencin Braque Derain de Chirico Rouault Bakst and others. The book features 19 plates depicting sets and costumes with four of the plates in color. There is also a photo of Diaghilev taken several days before his death at the young age of 57. <br /><br />Michel Georges-Michel and Waldemar George have written introductions while Nathalie Gontcharova has written about costumes; the book is illustrated with several of her designs for sets and costumes. There is also a complete list of the troupe's productions and a list of all the artists who designed sets and costumes. All text is in French. <br /><br />This book should not be confused with a 1955 revised edition. An altogether wonderful tribute to the Ballets Russes. <br /><br />CONDITION: Light edge wear toning to the wrappers especially the lower wrapper. Internally clean bright and unmarked. A beautiful Near Fine copy. Pierre Vorms paperback books
1862KC10862Paris: Baillieu Libraire Quai des Grands-Augustins No. 43 1862. Paperback. Very Good. 'La Grande Danse Macabre Paris edition of 1862 in original uncut wrappers 4to 265 x 200mm. 66 pages misnumbered 67. 56 woodcuts reprinted from the blocks of the 1641 Troyes edition. Original printed wrappers with printers device of Baillieu of pair of skeletons supporting a shield inscribed with B. Title page repeating Baillieus device and with skeletal lettering forming the words Danse Macabre. Excellent survival in its unbound state spine perished edges lightly chipped and wraps are loose but present only two stains on pages 20 and 21. <br/><br/>This edition was issued in Paris in about 1862 although it is undated. It is the re-edition of the La Grand Danse Macabre Des Hommes et Des Femmes with designs printed from the wood blocks of the Troyes edition of 1641. The text is reproduced from the original 1486 Marchant edition. Facsimile copies of the medieval Dance of Death tale were highly popular in the 19th century. The macabre spirit and fateful themes of the book have been appreciated for their artistry and poetry since the late Middle Ages. Baillieu, Libraire, Quai des Grands-Augustins, No. 43 paperback books
1928983775Diaghilev. Ballets Russes. Program Le Pas D'Achier Ode Noces. for 6 Juin 1928 <br /><br />Cover in blue with raised surface design by Pavel Tchelitchew General title page for X XIe Saison des Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilew. Théatre Sarah-Bernhardt 1928<br />Quarto. 9 3/4" X 12". 42pp incl covers Slight soiling corners a bit bumped. Ink inscription Slight stains to inside covers and general title Very good copy. <br />With cast list and full details for Le Pas D'Achier Ode Noces. Ads. Photos of Le Chatte scenery. Full page photos of Lubov Tchernicheva Serge Lifar Alexandra Danilova Léonide Massine George Balanchine Alicia Markova Vera Savina Constantin Tcherkass <br /><br /> Ballets Russes books
1927983772Diaghilev. Program. For 28 Mai <b>Le Triomphe de Neptune</b> music by Berners book by Sitwell decors and costume after the brothers Cruikshank Tofts Honigold and Wells. Choreography by Georges Balanchine. Cast list includes Danilova Lifar Tchernicheva Idzikovsky and others.<br /><br />Quarto. 9 ½ x 12" lightly soiled and worn at corners a few stains back cover. Front cover in color based on 19th century children's illustrations. General title page 10 Galas des Ballets Russes. Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. Xxe Saison de Serge de Diaghilew. 1927. Programs schedules for 17 Mai through 9 Juin 1927 are included. Nice photos of Olg Spessiva Leonide Massine Lydia Sokolova as well as Danilova Balanchine ads.<br /> Ballets Russes books
1914983773Diaghilev. Souvenir program for <b>Le Coq d'or and Pétrouchka</b>. Neuvième Saison Russe. Mai-Juin 1914 dix représentations de Ballets Russes de M. Serge de Diaghlew. Paris: Ballets Russes 1914. <br /><br /> Quarto 9 ½" x 12". Original wrappers 48p plus inserts. FINE COPY with original silk ties. Rare in this condition. Includes "Agrument du Coq d'Or and Petrouchka. General program for Mai-Juin 1914. Photo of Karsavina in Petrouchka Costumes in color full page photos of Fokina Fokine Karsavina Bolm ads inserted for Brunhoff's periodical Comoedia Illustre and Valentine Gross' Mouvements de Danse centerpiece of scenes from Papillons another two page spread in gold for Benois' costumes for Rossignol; sheaf of adverts at end including one for Sizaire-Berwick auto Sizaire-Berwick was an Anglo-French automobile manufacturer active between 1913 and 1927 and the Lorraine-Diétrich Lorraine-Dietrich was a French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer from 1896 until 1935<br /> Ballets Russes books
192436302Paris: Éditions des Quatre Chemins 1924. Two volumes. Quarto. Original publisher's heavy ivory wrappers with illustration in color by Braque to uppers. <br/><br/>Vol. I:<br/>1f. recto half-title verso blank 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. recto "Jean Cocteau" verso blank 3ff. text 1f. portrait of Cocteau 1f. recto "Louis Laloy" verso blank 7ff. text 1f. recto facsimile of music by Auric verso blank <br/>1f. recto "Georges Braque" verso blank 23 hand-coloured set and costume designs by Braque: La Naïde; Esquisse du décor; Décor manquette; Éraste; La Montagne; Lysandre; Orphise; L'Élegante; Joueuse de volant; Joueuse de volant dos; Première bavarde; Deuxième bavarde; Deuxième bavarde dos; Joueur de boules; Joueur de cartes; Le Tuteur; Premier valet; Deuxième valet; Policier; Premier masque; Premier masque dos; Deuxième masque; and Deuxième masque dos.<br/> <br/>Vol. II: <br/>1f. recto half-title verso blank 1f. recto blank verso reproduction of photograph of Braque by Man Ray 1f. recto title "Réalisation Scénique" verso blank 1f. contents 1f. recto "Argument" verso blank 1f. recto part title verso blank 22 full-page reproductions of photographs of dancers L. Krassovska; Nicolas Zverew; Antoine Wilzak; La Nijinska 2; Lubov Tchernicheva 3; Antoine Doline; N. Devalois 2; Ludmila Cholar L. Choliar et A. Wilzak; Alice Nikitin; L. Chollar A. Nikitina and A. Wilzak; Thadée Slavinsky 2; Th. Slavinsky E. Lapitsky et C. Tcherkas; Léon Woizikovsky; J. Jazvinsky et M. Pavlow; M. Federow; and S. Lifar in role portraits.<br/><br/>All plates with tissue gards.<br/><br/>Wrappers very slightly worn and soiled. Minor internal wear; a few signatures partially split; some tissue guards worn and creased. First Edition limited to 500 copies this no. 15 of only 40 copies on Hollande van Gelder with limitation statements at the conclusion of each volume. Magriel p. 187. Niles & Leslie I p. 75. Derra de Moroda 1503. <br/><br/>Les Facheux a ballet in one act with music by Georges Auric choreography by Bronislava Nijinska scenario by Boris Kochno after Moliere's comedy-ballet and curtain scenery and costumes by Georges Braque was first performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo on 19 January 1924 with principal dancers Lubov Tchernicheva Anatole Vilzak and Anton Dolin.<br/><br/>"By the time Auric found himself a member of Les Six Auric Durey Honegger Milhaud Poulenc and Tailleferre the style of his music - brilliant and often acidly aggressive - had become well established and works such as the Huit poèmes de Jean Cocteau 1919 or the foxtrot Adieu New York! 1919 show how he can be considered along with Poulenc the group's most typical representative. On hearing his 1921 incidental music for Molière's comédie-ballet Les fâcheux Diaghilev asked him to transform it into a ballet. First performed in Monte Carlo . it shows a facility for mood creation and a virtuosity in the manipulation of highly varied material that presages his film music. Other successful ballets followed: Les matelots 1924 and La pastorale 1925 for Diaghilev Les enchantements de la fée d'Alcine 1928 for Ida Rubinstein ." Jeremy Drake in Grove Music Online. <br/><br/>Examples of Les Facheux on Hollande van Gelder with particularly strong color to the plates are quite rare with no copies recorded in ABPC as having coming to auction since at least 1977. Éditions des Quatre Chemins unknown books
1922193327M. De Brunoff; Paris 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Heavily worn boards. Silk covering the beveled boards is separating from the boards in many places and faded in color- Front board illustration has dust soiling but colors are bright and unfaded. Binding is beginning to crack at some places hinges not started. Name is written at the top corner of the front pastedown- no other marks or notations. The 8pp of "L'Apres Midi di Faune" are loose but included the following program Comoedia Illustre 10pp "Le Carnaval" and "Daphnis et Chloe" is missing. All other pages and programs are present. Beautiful collection of art and performers of that era- Leon Bakst Natalia Goncharova Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to name a few with Vaslav Nijinsky Tamara Karsavina and Ida Rubenstein as a few of the featured performers/dancers. More photos available upon request. M. De Brunoff; Paris hardcover books
18581Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Striking original vintage sepia toned gelatin photograph of the important dancer ca. 1912. Stamped "ADOLPH BOLM / 'THAMAR' / SERGE de DIAGHILEFF'S BALLET RUSSE" on the verso in violet ink. Right edge trimmed irregularly small loss to upper left corner light spotting else in fine condition. 5.2 x 8 inches 13.2 x 20.3 cm<br style="">An early associate of Anna Pavlova Adolphe Bolm later was a major figure in Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. An injury sustained during this US tour lead him to leave the company and remain in the US where he went on to organize "Ballet Intime" and collaborate with the New York Metropolitan Opera. He is shown in the present image in the 1912 Ballets Russes production of "Thamar" in a costume by Leon Bakst.<br>In the ballet with music by Balakirev and choreography by Michel Fokine the subject of the life of Thamar Queen of Georgia from 1184 to 1213 was transformed in the spirit of nineteenth-century Romanticism becoming a symbol of nationalist pride in the face of growing Russian cultural dominance in the Caucasus. Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov fictionalized Thamar's history within his interpretation of a Georgian legend of a malevolent seductress in his 1841 poem Tamara and it was this version along with Balakirev's symphonic poem Tamara that inspired Bakst and Fokine for the Ballets Russes production. Bakst's looming set dramatized Thamar's isolated court in her castle in the treacherous Terek River and provided a stark background for his sumptuous and richly detailed costumes for the queen her courtiers guards and suitors.  The men's costumes are based on the traditional Caucasian cherkeska Circassian coat or kaftan with beshmet underdress. <br style="">German born photographer E. O. Hoppé moved to London in 1902 at the age of 24 to work for the Deutsche Bank. He was elected member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1903 and became one of the most important portrait and documentary photographers of his time. E. O. Hoppé spent most of his life in England or travelling the rest of the world on assignments. The present photograph was published as a gravure in Hoppé's 1913 Fine Art Society London volume "Studies from the Russian Ballet" the photographer's first major publication. At a time when ballet was highly popular he photographed most of the leading members of Serge Diaghilev's Russian Ballet in London and the present image of Bolm is one of his most celebrated images. <br style=""> unknown books
1922307356Paris: M. de Brunoff 1922. Profusely illustrated with full-color covers mounted and full-page plates and photographs. 187 of 188 leaves. Folio. Original cloth with inlaid illustrated upper cover from "The Firebird" by Natalia Gontcharova. Covers and spine rubbed and soiled internally fine but lacking cover for Ballets Russes program from May 1921 featuring Picasso illustration on recto and verso. Bakst Léon. Profusely illustrated with full-color covers mounted and full-page plates and photographs. 187 of 188 leaves. Folio. An outstanding visual record of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Ida Rubinstein's Galas Russes in their most influential years lavishly illustrated with the works of Bakst Gontcharova Larionov Picasso Matisse Massine Derain and others. The collection is comprised of special issues of the theatrical periodical "Comoedia Illustré" and souvenir programs devoted to Ballets Russes and Rubinstein's Galas Russes for the seasons 1909-1921 with introductory letterpress text for each season by V. Svetloff. With splendid color and gilt illustrations of costume and set designs as well as numerous photographic portraits of dancers and production artists. Bakst is the most frequently represented artist in the group; the illustration inlaid to the upper cover is by Natalia Gontcharova. M. de Brunoff unknown books
1922004588Paris: M. De Brunoff 1922. Folio green silk over thick beveled boards with large inset color illustration from Natalia Goncharova's design for "Firebird". Endpapers color- stenciled with names of the dances dancers composers and choreographers and in the center that of the impresario Serge Diaghilev. Silk faded; a little edge wear to bottom of front board. An exceptionally nice copy of this magnificent book. A compilation of the most important special issues of the theatrical periodical "Comoedia Illustré" and souvenir programs for the 1909-1921 seasons of the Ballets Russes compiled by the program publishers themselves Maurice and Jacques de Brunoff Explanatory forewords by the critic Valerian Svetlov. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and black and white and splendid color plates some heightened with gilt and silver of the dancers costumes and stage decor. Work by Léon Bakst Valentine Hugo André Derain Alexandre Benois Mikhail Larionov. Natalia Goncharova José Sert Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Dancers include Vaslav Nijinsky Tamara Karsavina Michael and Vera Fokine and Ida Rubenstein. Léon Bakst's brilliantly exotic and vivid designs for costumes and stage design revolutionized theater and fashion in the first quarter of the 20th century drawing on Neo-Russian Orientalist and ancient Greek motifs. The May 1917 issue is devoted primarily to the ballet "Parade". In his introduction "Parade et l'Esprit Nouveau" Guillaume Apollinaire coins the term "surrealism" laying the foundation for this movement. "Parade" is a collaboration among Erik Satie Jean Cocteau Pablo Picasso Léonide Massine and Serge Diaghilev. Picasso's costumes are depicted in two pochoir-colored plates: "Costume de Chinois" and "Costume d'Acrobate". A copy is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art rebound without the original cover plaque by Goncharova and another copy is featured in the 2019 exhibition "Hymn to Apollo/The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes" at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Illustrated Boards. Near Fine. Folio. M. De Brunoff Hardcover books
18294Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Bound collection of 6 concertinos for 4 violins viola cello and basso continuo in score copied from a manuscript at the Conservatoire de Paris as prepared for and subsequently inscribed by Sergei Diaghilev. Long attributed to Italian Baroque composer Pergolesi these pieces are a famous case of reattribution within the canon of classical music having been identified in recent decades as the work of the Dutch composer and statesman Count Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer. Half a century before this musicological consensus had been established Diaghilev wrote his opinion in an inscription on the cover of the present manuscript translated as follows from the French:<br style="">"In my opinion only the sixth last concertino was composed by Pergolesi. The others are of different authors who have nothing in common with him. I believe the autograph score does not exist and that the copy at the Conservatoire de Paris is the sole known copy that belongs to <lacuna>. These works are found in no library in Italy. It is especially strange that they are not to be found in Naples. The quality of the music of these three concertini is very unequal and one recognizes Pergolesi solely in the last part of the last concertino which was composed wholly by him the Adagio movement recalling his serenades etc. S. Diaghilev 1918."<br style="">"à mon avis il n'y a que le 6me dernier Concertino qui est composé par Pergolesi. Les autres sont de différents auteurs qui n'ont rien de commun avec lui. Je crois que le partition autographe n'existe pas et que l'exemplaire du Conservatoire de Paris est la copie de l'unique exemplaire connu qui appartient à <lacuna>. Dans aucune Bibliothèque d'Italie ces oeuvres ne se trouvent pas. Il est étrange surtout qu'on ne les trouve pas à Naples. La qualité de musique de ces concertini est très inégale et l'on reconnait Pergolesi seulement dans la dernière partie du dernier concertino qui fait être tout entier composé par lui mouvement d'Adagio rappelant ses serenades etc. S. Diaghilev. 1918."<br style="">24 pages bound in a single gathering 10 1/2 à 13 3/4 inches 27 à 35 cm closed. Each page ruled neatly in 16 staves. Notation neatly penned in the hand of the copyist L. Mathieu who has stamped lower right corner of cover: "'Copie musicale et littéraire' L. Mathieu 30 rue Legendre Paris." Diaghilev himself has further inscribed at the base of the page "Copiés d'après le manuscrit se trouvant au Conservatoire de Musique de Paris / 1917. SergeiDIaghilev" Purple ownership stamp in lower right corner of cover of Serge Lifar obtained at the sale of his library. Outer sheets cover and last page of music ever so slightly darker than openings else very fine throughout. <br style="">Diaghilev the great impresario of the Ballets Russes is best known for his prescient assemblage of extraordinarily promising composers artists choreographers and dancers. Perhaps Diaghilev's most famous musical innovation was his suggestion to Stravinsky that he set some themes by Giovanni Pergolesi or at least some music as here that was then believed to be by Pergolesi. The result was Pulcinella making Diaghilev at least partly responsible for the transition from Igor Stravinsky's Russian period to his Neoclassical period and the subsequent broader 1920s fascination with neo-classicism.  The present manuscript offers a glimpse into Diaghilev's central own role in evaluating projects for his ensemble since his inscriptions of 1917 and 1918 two/three years before the Ballets Russes production of Pulcinella so clearly demonstrate his interest in Pergolesi and the commedia dell'arte. unknown books
