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Diana Menuhin
Diana Rosamond Constance Grace Irene Gould, later Diana Menuhin, Baroness Menuhin (12 November 1912 – 25 January 2003) was a British ballerina and occasional actress and singer, who is best remembered as the second wife of the violinist Yehudi Menuhin. As a dancer, however, she was described by Anna Pavlova as the only English dancer she'd seen who "had a soul", and by Arnold Haskell as "the most musical dancer the English have yet produced". Biography Early life Gould was born in Belgravia, London in 1912. Her father was Gerald Gould, a civil servant with the Foreign Office, and her mother was the pianist Evelyn Suart. She had an older brother, Gerard, and a younger sister, Griselda. Her father was of Irish descent but had been brought up in Paris; and her mother had studied in Brussels and Paris. Consequently, Diana was imbued with French culture and language from an early age. Her father died of typhoid fever in 1916, when Diana was aged only three. In 1920, when she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Suart
Evelyn Suart, Lady Harcourt (30 April 188126 October 1950) was an English pianist. She was born in 1881 in Sindapore, India, the daughter of Brigadier-General W. H. Suart,Royal Navy (RN) Officers 1939-45 at unithistories.com, accessed 3 April 2018 and she spent some of her early childhood there. She also lived for periods in and England.Harcourt Articles 2 Lady Evelyn Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bar Aux Folies-Bergère (ballet)
''Bar aux Folies-Bergère'' is a one-act ballet created in 1934 with the scenario and choreography by Ninette de Valois. The music consists of piano works of Emmanuel Chabrier selected and arranged by Constant Lambert, and the designs were by William Chappell after Manet. Background The Ballet Rambert in 1934 had a dancer, Elisabeth Schooling, who had a very similar appearance to the barmaid in Manet's '' Un bar aux Folies Bergère''. Ashley Dukes, Marie Rambert's husband suggested there might be a ballet around the picture, also introducing can-can dancers. In fact the role was created by Pearl Argyle, but Schooling danced it subsequently.Rambert, Marie. ''Quicksilver: an autobiography.'' Papermac (Macmillan Publishers Ltd), London, 1983, p157. The original owner of Manet's 1882 painting was Chabrier; it now hangs in the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. ''Bar aux Folies-Bergère'' was first performed on 15 May 1934 by Ballet Rambert at the Ballet Club at the Mercury Thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Theatre Ballet
The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both highly dynamic and a characteristically constant feature of human life, they have developed into innovative, stylized and sometimes intricate forms. This is often achieved through sustained and deliberate study, training and/or theorizing within a particular tradition, across generations and even between civilizations. The arts are a vehicle through which human beings cultivate distinct social, cultural and individual identities, while transmitting values, impressions, judgments, ideas, visions, spiritual meanings, patterns of life and experiences across time and space. Prominent examples of the arts include: * visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing, filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), * literary arts (includin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
