Self-indulgent showcase

From: The Spectator | Date: September 27, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Dance

Winterreise

Barbican

British-born Antony Tudor was one of the first 20th-century dance makers to turn to the classical song cycle for a new choreographic work. Since the creation of his 1937 Dark Elegies, to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, many choreographers have tackled the same type of musical composition, albeit with different degrees of success. Although Mahler's lieder seem to have prompted the largest number of choreographic creations, dance works have also been set to Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, Wagner's Wesendoch Lieder, as well as to a number of Schubert's and Schumann's ...

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