Monthly Archives: March 2018
Tarantella. What legends are associated with it?
A dance shrouded in mystery. Dance, which became a symbol. At the same time — absolutely alive — everyone can dance, do it with pleasure on holidays and even hold special festivals. All this Tarantella, which is associated with curious legends. Main legend the history of the dance, States that from the 14th to the 15th century in southern Italy was a strange epidemic of tarantism. And what is interesting: only women and only commoners were bitten. No sick high-born lady or, rather, “Donna” or Signora was recorded. On the one hand, it is clear. The rich aristocrat-lady in the field do not go, do not collect the harvest. Continue reading
“Holy Spring.” As shown by the pagan Russia Stravinsky, Roerich and Nijinsky?
Still flying in space American ship “Voyager”. Bears he records music. And along with the music of Is Bach on Board the spacecraft is a recording of the music of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “the sacred Spring”. And on Earth, in the Swiss town of Clarence, there is a street with a strange name — the Street of Holy Spring. The fact that the street in the city on the shore of lake Geneva is named after the Russian ballet is not surprising. For example, the apartment “Montreux Palace” next door is named after V. Nabokov, who lived there for the last 17 years of his life. It may even seem strange that there is no street Violin concert (which was written in the same place, but before, and Tchaikovsky). Continue reading
