Category Archives: ballet

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Marche des mousquetaires 1658

Posted on February 15, 2020 by

Early music compositions by Jean-Baptiste Lully are mostly connected with ballets & theatre performances; however some footprints of instrumental music yet can be discovered. The set of Marches 1658 composed for hautboys & tambours reveal us Lully-s unique music signature … Continue reading →

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Reflection of the Past: Jean-Baptiste Lully

Posted on February 5, 2020 by

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687), Louis XIV’s first composer of the Court, the superintendent of the Royal music & a master of the French Baroque, was born in Florence, Toscana. He belonged to a simple family, so his youth until 14th years … Continue reading →

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Welcome 2020!!!

Posted on January 1, 2020 by

Esteemed Readers, may a new decade be creative, full of merry blogging, fast editing & flashing writing! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Maria KethuProfumo

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Russian New Year Tale: The Secret of the Snow Queen

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

The Snow Queen, certainly, is not the Russian tale, however it has become the essential part of the Soviet New Year entertaining program. Restrictions & the religion prohibition in the USSR caused a peculiar cultural phenomenon: the main creative power … Continue reading →

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Author’s Tale: The Little Humpbacked Horse

Posted on November 16, 2019 by

Esteemed Readers, I go on telling you about author’s fairy tale in the Russian folklore. This time I would like to present one of the most brilliant story: a tale about a humpbacked horse’s adventures written in the middle of … Continue reading →

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Mysterious Town Kitezh

Posted on November 9, 2019 by

Each nation has its magic, mysterious places described in folklore. Those are places of a spiritual force that mean a connection with ancestors thus with customs & traditions as well as a spiritual rebirth or the Garden of Eden on … Continue reading →

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Fairy-Tale: Snow Maiden

Posted on September 22, 2019 by

  As the autumn is rather cold this year I have decided to go on the topic of winter represented in the Russian folk tales. This time it is about a Snow Maiden or Sneg’urochka as we call it. The … Continue reading →

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