Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Programs

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Programs

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Music Made Visible By A. B. WALKLEY ( Dramatic Critic of “ The Times " -- London ) T MAUD ALLAN And the Philharmonic Orchestra HE stage is unfurnished , and for background there are plain velvet curtains of a subfusc hue . The violin bows glide softly into the first strains of Chopin's Valse in A minor ( Opus 34 , No. 2 ) and the dream begins . The figure of the dream is a young girl ; you perceive her , that is to say , to be a girl when you wake again , but to your dreaming sense , she is a nymph or a Tan agra statuette . Timidly she slips through the curtains , and then appears to be drawn unconsciously into movement by the music . Say rather that she becomes part of the music — music made visible . She wears light classic drapery that seems not so much to clothe her as to serve as ambient air wherein she floats . Her limbs and feet are bare : slender , supple limbs , feet that seem rather to caress the ground than to be supported by it . When her arms wave it is a wave in the true sense that they form ; a ripple runs along them , slowly dying out at the finger - tips . Her hands have something of the leaf or petal about them , gently opening and folding or curving back upon their stem , like Daph . ne's hand in that picture of Giopione where the god has caught her and she is just turning to laurel . For exquisite felicity of expression we can only com pare them with the hands of Duse - whom d'Annunzio has so well called dalle belle mani -- Here they express — how we cannot guess , we merely state the fact a pensive melancholy , the vague , sad reverie of Chopin's music . But the A minor Valse , as everyone knows , modulates at times into the relative major , and then the dancer's face changes and expresses hope and joy , and her hands , limbs , and all the movements of her body express hope and joy . Only for a moment , however , for again the music sinks back into the minor key , and you see the joy fading out of the girl's face , and leaving her arms and hands , and she dances as one oppressed falling at last into a wan despair . The music ceases : the dancer is quite still with her head bowed over hands that seem life . less : then she glides quietly through the curtain , and you wake from your dream . WALTER HENRY ROTHWELL , Conductor W. A. CLARK , JR . , Founder CAROLINE E. Smith , Manager ONE PERFORMANCE Friday Evening , March 5th Philharmonic Auditorium PRICES -- $ 1 , $ 1.50 , $ 2.00 , $ 2.50 and $ 3.00 To George Leslie Smith , Manager 424 Auditorium Building Los Angeles And what is the secret of her art ? —sheer beauty ; every line of it , every rhythm , ever movement , every posture , every pause , is beautiful . And so Maud Allan gives beautiful dreams , and we do not wonder that all the dream ers in London , and all the lovers of beauty for beauty's sake , are crowding to see her , and return to see her again and again . Please reserve for me ... ... seats at $ . each for the MAUD ALLAN - PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA per formance on Friday Evening , March 5th . Enclosed find check for $ . Name Address .. THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF LOS ANGELES

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