Yarillo spring festival

[Mary Delle LeBeau]

Now, I've done it.  Pushed the reply button rather than pasting in
the name of the sender.  So sorry to have this appear on the listing.

Mary Delle

On 27 Sep 2001, at 18:39, Mary Delle LeBeau wrote:

> Dear Marilyn,
>
> Sounds very interesting!!  How do I go about getting a copy of your
> dissertation.
>
> Yours,
>
> Mary Delle
>
> On 27 Sep 2001, at 18:05, hoogen wrote:
>
> > Dear Mary Delle,
> >     There has been a good deal written about the folk sources for
> > Stravinsky's music for the rite, and considerable speculation about the
> > folkloric sources for the libretto as well.
> >     However, I suggest you take a look at my dissertation, _Igor Stravinsky,
> > Nikolai Roerich and the Healing Power of Paganism.  The Rite of Spring as
> > ecstatic Ritual of Renewal for the Twentieth Century_ (University of
> > Washington, 1997).  In this work I explore the cultural context in which
> > Roerich and Stravinsky worked.  I believe that Roerich had a more
> > influential role in the project than is generally acknowledged.  I also
> > believe that Stravinsky was more of a willing participant in this recreation
> > of an ecstatic ritual than he acknowledged in later years.  During the early
> > twentieth century the Russian creative intelligentsia saw art as a way to
> > reconcile the material and spiritual worlds--a union that had been
> > fragmented by rational philosophy and empirical science.  In this cultural
> > context, The Rite of Spring can be seen as a mysterium for the twentieth
> > century:  it is a grand synthesis of music, design, and dance as an
> > enactment of a sacred mystery that will reveal to the participants the
> > nature of the human spirit and its relation to both the earthly and higher
> > spiritual worlds.  Identifying folk sources, therefore, gives only part of
> > the larger picture.
> > Marilyn Hoogen, Ph.D.
> >
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