Foundation Humanity, BULGARIA

Spring in Art

Georgi Zaikov

Georgi Zaikov

Georgi Zaikov

Georgi Zajkov

Dimitar Vetzin

Venelin Valkanov

Venelin Valkanov

Venelin Valkanov

Venelin Valkanov

Venelin Valkanov

Roumen Malchev - Bulgaria

Nikolai Roerich

The last Angel

Guest from overseas

Nikolai Roerich
The healer

Adoration of the Earth

Nikolai Roerich

The book of Doves

Picasso

Three musicians.

Henri Matisse

The Dance

Carmina Burana The Wheel of Fortuna

Carmina Burana Title page 13 C

Spring Music
Pieces of Music used for work in class and outside activities:
Tchaikovsky - /The Nutcracker/ - Waltz of the Flowers
Igor Stravinsky The rites of Spring ;
Carl Orff Carmina Burana - /Tanz/
Claude Debussy Ronde de Printemps
The Music files are enclosed in the CD. Open with Winamp programme.
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Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)

Carmina Burana is a scenic cantata composed by Carl Orff between 1935 and 1936. It is based on 24 of
the poems found in the medieval collection Carmina Burana. Orff first encountered the text in John
Addington Symonds's 1884 publication, Wine, Women, and Song, which included English translations of
46 poems from the collection.

1.

1. From the 11th-13th Century Carmina Burana,

a collection of love and vagabond songs.
2. The cover of the score to Carmina Burana
showing the Wheel of Fortuna

2.

The Rite of Spring

(Le Sacre du printemps) ( ) is a ballet

by Igor Stravinsky.
According to the author, a better translation to English
would have been "The Coronation Of Spring.
The Rite of Spring was composed between 1912 and 1913
for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
The Great Russian artist and philosopher Nicolai Roerich
was an integral part of the creation of the work, drawing
from scenes of historical rites for inspiration; It had its
premiere on May 29, 1913 at the Thtre des Champslyses in Paris.
Stravinsky - Pablo
Picasso

Many subsequent film composers have been influenced by

The Rite of Spring and sometimes make indirect references
to it. For example, John Williams's theme for the Dune Sea
in the original Star Wars soundtrack.

The Rite of Spring was further popularized through Walt Disney's Fantasia
(1940), an animated feature film in which imaginative visual images and stories
are added to classical music.

Part I: Adoration of the Earth

Introduction
The Augurs of Spring (Dances of the Young
Girls)
Ritual of Abduction
Spring Rounds (Round Dance)
Ritual of the Rival Tribes
Procession of the Sage
The Sage (Adoration of the Earth)
Dance of the Earth

The Dance by Henri Matisse (1910), was associated

with Stravinsky's Dances of the Young Girls.

Part II: The Sacrifice

Introduction
Mystic Circles of the Young Girls
The Glorification of the Chosen One
Evocation of the Ancestors
Ritual Action of the Ancestors
Sacrificial Dance (the Chosen One;L'Elue)
Disney's Fantasia
Nicholas Roerich's 1913 set design for
Part I: Adoration of the Earth.

Igor Stravinsky (1882 1971)

A Russian composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th-century music. He
was a quintessentially cosmopolitan Russian who was named by Time magazine as one of the most
influential people of the century.
He achieved international fame with three ballets L'Oiseau de feu ("The Firebird"), Petrushka, and Le sacre
du printemps ("The Rite of Spring").
Stravinsky was born in Russia and brought up in Saint Petersburg.
1910 1920 he lived and worked in Switzerland. 1920 1939 lived and worked in France.
When war broke, he set out for the United States, where he lived until his death in 1971. He lived in the In
1962, he returned to Russia for a series of concerts.
He died at the age of 88 in New York City and was buried in Venice on the cemetery island of San Michele.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and posthumously received the Grammy Award for Lifetime
Achievement in 1987.
Stravinsky was "man of the world", appearing relaxed and comfortable in many of the world's major cities.
Paris, Venice, Berlin, London and New York City.
Stravinsky displayed an inexhaustible desire to learn and explore art, literature, and life. This desire
manifested itself in several of his Paris collaborations. Not only was he the principal composer for Sergei
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, but he also collaborated with Pablo Picasso (Pulcinella, 1920), Jean Cocteau
(Oedipus Rex, 1927) and others.
Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collaborated on Pulcinella in 1920. Picasso took the opportunity to make
several sketches of the composer.
Stravinsky's taste in literature was wide, and reflected his constant desire for new discoveries. The texts and
literary sources for his work began with a period of interest in Russian folklore, progressed to classical
authors and the Latin liturgy, and moved on to contemporary France (Andr Gide, in Persephone) and
eventually English literature, including Auden, T. S. Eliot and medieval English verse. At the end of his life,
he was even setting Hebrew scripture in Abraham and Isaac.