Abstracts
Résumé
La création de Dance in Place Congo (1918) du compositeur américain Henry F. Gilbert par la compagnie de danse en résidence et l’orchestre du Metropolitan Opera a été la première production sur un thème africano-américain à être présentée dans l’enceinte du Metropolitan Opera. Il s’agit aussi de la toute première prestation de musiques vernaculaires noires et de la première présence d’artistes de couleur sur la scène légendaire du Met. Le résultat, cependant, est davantage un reflet des rivalités entre compositeur, chorégraphe et gestionnaires, et d’un choc de visions artistiques en réponse à une esthétique moderniste émergente en musique, danse et scénographie.
Abstract
The world premiere of American composer Henry F. Gilbert’s The Dance in Place Congo by the resident ballet company and orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 was the first production on an African American theme given at the house. It also represented the first hearing of vernacular musical materials and the first appearance of performers of color on its legendary stage. Yet the creative results reflected competing visions among composer, choreographer, and management, as well as a collision among artistic responses to an emerging modernist aesthetic in music, dance, and stage design.
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