Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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LIISS DUNCAN SCORES IN NEW DANCES Audience Content Only After Two Encores and a Cur tain Speech . N.Y. Times Aug 29 1908 P. 9 : 5 HER WORK IS UNUSUAL Glided About , in Chopin Prelude , with No Suggestion of Dance Steps , Arms Behind Her . Isadora Duncan was decidedly success túi last night at the Criterion Theatre in the new programme of dances which she has selected for the remainder of her engagement . There was a large audience present and the dancer received an en thusiastic reception . At the end of the programme the audience did not leave Its seats until Miss Duncan had given two extra numbers and made a speech , in which she characterized her work of the evening , as " ambitious , " in that she had attempted to portray the ideas of great pieces of music with an art that had been dead for more than two thousand years . The programme was made up of dances to Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and eight of the shorter ploces of Chopin . An augmented orchestra under the direction of Gustav Saenger provided the music . The Beethoven number came first on the programme , The orchestra played the first movement before the rise of the curtain , and with the second Miss Duncan began her dance . The first part of her dance followed the shadings of the music and might be described as a series of pictures portraying the alternating feel ings from woe to gayety , which the dancer interpreted the composer's meaning . With the rollicking scherzo of the final presto " movement , how ever , subtlety was cast aside , and the dance became frankly joyous . The Chopin numbers , consisting of three mazurkas , three preludes , and two waltzes , were more varied in character . In all of them Miss Duncan held the audience al most breathlessly attentive . For several of them she wove little stories , others were made dramatic , In the preludes , the orchestra carried the principal part , the music being ac companied on the stage by a se.108 of simple posos . In one or them the cáncer remained with her arms locked brbind her back , moving slightly about he stage witim ut a suggestion of dance steps . The concluding numbers , two waltzes , were given with more abandon , thougn Miss Duncan did not fail to introduce the con trast of pensiveness , which ly in the Po : ish composer's music . After the last number , there were the encores , & speech , and many recalla , in e of which Miss Duncan presented a bouquet to . Conductor Saenger , who came in for a share of the applause . as