Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1930s & 1940s

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Maud Allan 604 51 2008-1-32.jpg
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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1930s & 1940s

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Dance Magazine MAUDE , THE MAID OF HELLAS Maude Allan as she appeared in THE VISION OF SALOME , first performed at her debut in 1903 . P. & A. PROTO UNLIKE LOE FULLER , Maude Allan had the advantage of a first rate musical education . As a child in Toronto , Canada , she was trained by a German governess who was 60 competent a piano teacher that Maude was accepted at the age of fourteen into the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin . The life of a music student of fifty years ago was very much the same as it is today . In other words , it was a constant round of practice and classes . And because the curriculum at the Royal Academy was highly competitive , there wasn't much time for relaxation . Feeling that she needed an occasional change , Maude Allan entered a ballet class just for the exercise . But as is often the case with dancing , one thing led to another . When she attended symphony concerts , she began to artists . And unlike most pioneers , she was an immediate imagine that the conductors were dancing . When she travelled , she became aware of Greece - and of how There were command performances for kings , appear closely related music and dance were in that country . ances in Carnegie Hall with symphony Orchestras , tri One by one the pieces began to fit into place . She umphal tours , and all the adulation that artists rarely evolved her theory that the dance must be for the eye achieve until they are far older than the sixteen years what music is for the ear . Of course , the best way to which Maude Allan had behind her when she made her work out her idea was on her own body , and before long debut . a promising young pianist became , instead , a promising Until 1928 Miss Allan toured regularly , but she finally young dancer gave this up to found a school in England . And it is there Clad in the costume pictured on this page ( although that she can be found today , surrounded by small children she usually wore Greek robes ) , she made her debut in learning everything from tap dancing to elocution . Vienna in 1903 before an audience of musicians and D. H. success .