bear story

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Geoffrey Chew wrote:

> On Wed, 12 May 1999, Edward M Dumanis wrote:
>
> > I do not know the ballet but its name is somewhat associated with "Tri
> > medvedja" (Three Bears") which is written by Count Leo Tolstoy, and, I
> > might guess, is based on a folk tale.
>
> No, according to the standard biography of Lambert, the (unpublished and
> unperformed) ballet is about a series of animals who come on stage one by
> one (mouse, frog, cat, etc) and enter a rotten treetrunk. The last animal
> is a bear, who sits on the trunk, demolishing it and all the previous
> dancers, and bringing the whole ballet to a rapid end...
>
>  Geoffrey Chew
>  Music Department, Royal Holloway College (University of London)
>  Internet:       chew at sun.rhbnc.ac.uk
>
Then it is certainly "Terem-teremok" (where "teremok" means a little
Russian house in the style of "terem").

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>