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mentions:
The Nutcracker & Joyous Tidings
Jacques Offenbach ~ Tales of Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann - 1840's
self portrait
Showing posts with label The Nutcracker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Nutcracker. Show all posts
December 1, 2023
E. T. A. Hoffmann articles/mentions
mentions:
The Nutcracker & Joyous Tidings
Jacques Offenbach ~ Tales of Hoffmann
Ann Barzel articles/mentions
January 1, 2018
December 27, 2017
December 25, 2017
Christmas stuff(ings)
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photo by Styrous®
Band Aid ~ Do They Know It's Christmas?
Arthur Fiedler ~ Pops Goes Christmas
Leontyne Price ~ A Christmas Offering
Spın̈al Tap ~ Christmas With The Devil
Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians ~ A Visit From St. Nicholas
The Yobs - Auld Lang Syne
September 8, 2017
20,000 Vinyl LPs 108: Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba @ 10"
I was organizing my vinyl LP space with Lon Clark (link below) yesterday and came across this delightful 1949 gem. Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba, was a 10" vinyl LP in a book album similar to The Nutcracker and The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (links below).
This format was common in the 40's and early 50's. Unfortunately, the
record itself disappeared years before I bought it. All I have is the
album but the graphics were too good to pass up.
It was a mono recording, of course, and my version is a re-issue (date unknown). There was also a 45 rpm version of the album issued.
photo by Styrous®
It was a mono recording, of course, and my version is a re-issue (date unknown). There was also a 45 rpm version of the album issued.
original issue - 1949
1st re-issue - date unknown
10" vinyl LP album cover interior
photo by Styrous®
Chuy Reyes was born in Mexico but I could not find the date. He and his Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra was the club band at the Mocambo Night Club from the time it opened on January 3, 1941.
The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during the Portuguese rule. They were also called, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos.
Mocambos were exile communities established by fugitive Brazilian slaves between the 18th and 19th century. The purpose of these settlements was to protect the slaves from the Portuguese opposition, thanks to their hidden location, which was difficult to find for the punitive military expeditions. Mocambos were a threat to the economy and the social fabric of the slave regime, because the parasitic economy of these communities was mostly composed of theft, extortion and raiding. Though the minority of communities lived off agriculture and arms trade. Mocambos were not controlled by the government and because of the high percentage of Brazilian slaves, which incorporated one third of the total population, the number and the importance of Mocambos was continually increasing. For this reason Mocambos inhabitants were executed by punitive military expeditions and the children born in the Mocambos became property of the leaders of the exterminating expeditions.
Mocambos were exile communities established by fugitive Brazilian slaves between the 18th and 19th century. The purpose of these settlements was to protect the slaves from the Portuguese opposition, thanks to their hidden location, which was difficult to find for the punitive military expeditions. Mocambos were a threat to the economy and the social fabric of the slave regime, because the parasitic economy of these communities was mostly composed of theft, extortion and raiding. Though the minority of communities lived off agriculture and arms trade. Mocambos were not controlled by the government and because of the high percentage of Brazilian slaves, which incorporated one third of the total population, the number and the importance of Mocambos was continually increasing. For this reason Mocambos inhabitants were executed by punitive military expeditions and the children born in the Mocambos became property of the leaders of the exterminating expeditions.
The Mocambo
The Mocambo was located in West Hollywood, California, at 8588 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip and was owned by Charlie Morrison and Felix Young.
The Mocambo - 1957
Among the celebrities who frequented the Mocambo were Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Sophia Loren, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, Grace Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Howard Hughes, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Theda Bara, Tyrone Power, Jayne Mansfield, John Wayne, Ben Blue, Ann Sothern, and Louis B. Mayer. Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow, Jr. celebrated their divorce there.
The Mocambo - 1947
photographer unknown
Mocambo Nightclub - 1942
photographer unknown
Mocambo, 1951
photographer unknown
Mocambo - 1955
photographer unknown
Mocambo nightclub - 1948
photographer unknown
The Mocambo wouldn’t allow Ella Fitzgerald to sing there, because of
the color of her skin. One day Marilyn Monroe, by then a superstar, paid
a visit to Charlie Morrison, the owner of the club. She made Charlie an
offer: if he booked Ella, she promised she would be there, front and
center, every single night of Ella’s show. Morrison agreed, because
there was no star bigger than Monroe at the time (imagine the
publicity!), and Ella suddenly found herself on that stage.
photographer unknown
The club's main stage was replicated on the TV series I Love Lucy as the "Tropicana" Club. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were frequent guests at the Mocambo and were close friends of Morrison.
Lobby ~ Mocambo nightclub
photographer unknown
Chuy Reyes And His Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra –
Rumba De Cuba
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 = Baracoa, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
A2 = Almendra, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Abelardo Valdes*
A3 = Boteando, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by King-Martinez
A4 = La Yuca, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
Side 2:
B1 = La Ultima Noche, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Bobby Collazo
B2 Blen! Blen! Blen!, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Pozot-Cugat
B3 = Negra Leono, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Antonio Fernandez
B4 = Hokey Joe, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Swan-Ricardo
Side 1:
A1 = Baracoa, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
A2 = Almendra, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Abelardo Valdes*
A3 = Boteando, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by King-Martinez
A4 = La Yuca, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
Side 2:
B1 = La Ultima Noche, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Bobby Collazo
B2 Blen! Blen! Blen!, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Pozot-Cugat
B3 = Negra Leono, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Antonio Fernandez
B4 = Hokey Joe, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Swan-Ricardo
Chuy Reyes And His Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra* – Rumba De Cuba
Label: Capitol Records – H152, Capitol Records – H-152
Format: Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Mono
Country: US
Original release: 1949
Re-issue: unknown
Genre: Latin
Style: Rumba
Viewfinder links:
“Just the cover, ma’am!”
Lon Clark
Dave Greenslade ~ The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
Net links:
Martin Turnbull ~ Mocambo: The Nightclub’s Nightclub
Night at the Mocambo ~ Marilyn Monroe & Ella Fitzgerald
YouTube links:
Boteando
La Yuca
Blen! Blen! Blen!
Negra Leono
Hokey Joe YouTube links:
Boteando
La Yuca
Blen! Blen! Blen!
Negra Leono
July 22, 2017
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky articles/mentions
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker & Joyous Tidings
The Nut Rocker
Shorty Rogers ~ The Swingin' Nutcracker
Symphony #6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Painting by Nikolai Kuznetsov - 1893
mentions: The Nutcracker & Joyous Tidings
The Nut Rocker
Shorty Rogers ~ The Swingin' Nutcracker
Symphony #6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Painting by Nikolai Kuznetsov - 1893
Victoria de los Ángeles
Antal Doráti ~ 1812 Overture
The Magical Music of Walt Disney
PIL (Public Image Ltd.) ~ Metal Box
Ken Russell ~ Gustav Holst's The Planets
PIL (Public Image Ltd.) ~ Metal Box
Ken Russell ~ Gustav Holst's The Planets
Adolphe Sax ~ The saxophone & other weird wonders
John WilliamsJune 18, 2017
December 10, 2012
20,000 Vinyl LPs 15: The Nutcracker & Joyous Tidings
At
this time of year, beside Santa, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, Jesus,
Mary & Joseph, one of the great holiday traditions is The Nutcracker ballet. Every little kid thrills at the sight of the tree
growing (or Clara shrinking, depending on your point of view) in the first act. Through the magic of clever staging, lighting, incredibly dramatic but exquisitely beautiful ascending modulating music I still get goose-bumps when I see it happening. Watch it in action on YouTube.
I saw my first performance of the Nutcracker in 1962, performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the San Francisco Opera House. It featured George Zorich.
Zorich has been quoted as once saying, “Dance should live; if it doesn’t come from the heart, it is not dancing.” I had been dancing for four years by then and
was about to dance in a production of the Nutcracker. I absorbed every
move he made.
(click on any image to see larger size)
photo by Styrous® George Zoritch
April 11, 1942
photo by Carl Van Vechten
The Nutcracker was in the Ballet Russe repertoire
for almost the entirety of the company's existence, from 1940 to 1962, except in 1953 when it was not performed. I saw one of the last
performances of it by the company. There is actually a DVD of the
performance at the Chicago Public Library. It was originally filmed in 16 mm by Ann Barzel. She was 101 years old when she died as documented in the New York Times.
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
It was first performed on December 18th of 1892 at the Maryinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with decor by Botcharov.
(1818-1910) (1834–1901)
photographer unknown
(1840-1893)
photographer unknown
The libretto is from an adaptation (The Tale of the Nutcracker) by Alexandre Dumas, père of the E.T.A. Hoffmann story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" written in 1816.
Hoffmann is the subject and hero of the opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach.
photographer unknown
Early images of the Nutcracker
original costume sketch
for The Nutcracker ca. 1890
Photo of Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara (left),
an unknown performer (center), &
Vassily Stulkolin as Fritz (right)
in the Imperial Ballet's original production of
Circa December, 1892
Scanned from the book
"The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov"
by Roland John Wiley
Oxford University Press, 1997
Unknown photographer of the
Imperial Mariinsky Theatre
Oxford University Press, 1997
Unknown photographer of the
Imperial Mariinsky Theatre
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Konstantin Ivanov's original sketch
for the set of The Nutcracker (1892)
Photographic postcard of the ballerina
Olga Preobrajenskaya (1871-1962)
as the Sugarplum Fairy &
the danseur Nikolai Legat (1869-1937)
as Prince Coqueluche in the
original production of "The Nutcracker"
by the Imperial Ballet
(The Kirov Ballet under Soviet rule,
now the Mariinsky Ballet)
now the Mariinsky Ballet)
Circa 1900
Unknown photographer of the photography
department of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.
Ivan Vsevolozhsky's original costume designs for
Some critics
called The Nutcracker "astonishingly rich in inspiration" and "from
beginning to end, beautiful, melodious, original, and characteristic."
But some critics found the party scene "ponderous" and the Grand Pas de
Deux "insipid" (You can't please everyone).
Many
recordings have been made since 1909 of the Nutcracker Suite (also see: Nutcracker Suite), which
made its initial appearance on disc that year in what is now
historically considered the first record album. Antal Doráti was especially well known for his recordings of Tchaikovsky's music.
photographer unknown
Doráti
was the first conductor to record the complete performances of all three of
Tchaikovsky's ballets - Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.
The albums were recorded in mono in 1954, for Mercury Records, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. All three ballets were first issued separately, but later re-issued in a 6-LP set.
The photos below are of the first complete recording of the ballet issued in 1954, in mono, of course, with the red bookmark cord and tassel. I have loved looking at it all these years. It featured an elaborate and beautifully bound book with liner notes/descriptions of the story, the history of the Ballet and the recording of the ballet by Clair Van Ausdall; it has delicate line illustrations by Dorothy Maas and the cover design was by George Maas.
The photos below are of the first complete recording of the ballet issued in 1954, in mono, of course, with the red bookmark cord and tassel. I have loved looking at it all these years. It featured an elaborate and beautifully bound book with liner notes/descriptions of the story, the history of the Ballet and the recording of the ballet by Clair Van Ausdall; it has delicate line illustrations by Dorothy Maas and the cover design was by George Maas.
All photos of the Antal Dorati/Nutcracker album by Styrous®
(click on any image to see larger size)
So,
in closing, this is my way of wishing you all the best of the holiday
season. Here's hoping happiness and love find you well and hit you up one
good. All the best in the brand new year ahead of us.
And don't forget, dance brightly on.
Styrous® ~ December 10, 2012
And don't forget, dance brightly on.
The entire collection is for sale. Interested? Contact Styrous®
Styrous® ~ December 10, 2012
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