Gustav Holst: The Sneezing Charm (1918) Incidental music to a play by Clifford Bax. скачать в хорошем качестве

Gustav Holst: The Sneezing Charm (1918) Incidental music to a play by Clifford Bax.

Movements: I. Prelude II. Song III. Intermezzo (repetition of the prelude) IV. Ballet Original manuscript transcribed by Tommaso Solari MuseScore Digital Orchestra The Sneezing Charm was ‘An Arabian Night’s Phantasy in Rhyme’ by Clifford Bax, produced by Cavendish Morton, with costumes and scenery designed by George Sheringham. The cast included Ernest Thesiger and Miles Malleson. The dancers included ‘Mlle Dacia (by kind permission of Oscar Asche), and Mlle Derra de Moroda’. The song at the opening of Act IT was sung by Olga Ward: no words are shown in the score, The programme gave the story of the Ballet as follows: A Djinni who is dancing in an enchanted garden is disturbed by the entrance of a Princess and Three Maidens. She causes the latter to fall asleep, but the Princess opposes her will and succeeds for a time in dancing a figure of her own. Little by little, however, her dance grows like that of the Djinni until, in the end, the Djinni completely overcomes her will. Holst used the music of The Sneezing Charm as the foundation of The Perfect Fool ballet music, which he began working at in 1918. But the Ballet from The Sneezing Charm must have existed in its own right for another three years, for he conducted a concert performance of ‘Dance—The Djinn’ at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham on 19 September 1920, and at the Town Hall, Cheltenham (as ‘Intermezzo—The Djinni’), on 13 March 1921. It was also used as music for a ballet called ‘A Magic Hour’ which was performed at the ‘Morley College Distribution of Prizes and Certificates in the Royal Victoria Hall’ [Old Vic] on 5 October 1920 by ‘Members of the Music and Gymnastic Classes under the direction of the Composer’. The story was about toys coming to life and dancing in the moonlight; the choreography was by Nelly Noble. It was probably played by a smaller orchestra with piano on this occasion. Information from A thematic catalogue of Gustav Holst's music by Imogen Holst