Albert ROUSSEL (1869-1937). L.A.S., Paris... - Lot 90 - Ader

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Albert ROUSSEL (1869-1937). L.A.S., Paris... - Lot 90 - Ader
Albert ROUSSEL (1869-1937). L.A.S., Paris January 27, 1931, to Miss Marie-Thérèse Évrard; 3 pages small in-4 at her address. Beautiful letter about his ballet Le Festin de l'Araignée. "I am very sensitive to your kind letter and will be charmed to see my ballet danced by your young students. He believed that this project was feasible and hoped that it would succeed, despite the real difficulties involved. First of all, it is necessary to make sure that no theater intends to put on this ballet, which would greatly diminish the interest of this performance... From a musical point of view, he reminds us that "the orchestra of this ballet, without being very important, requires at least 24 to 25 musicians; there is no arrangement for only a few instruments. Does she intend to hire a whole orchestra, which would be very expensive, or simply to have the score performed on the piano? For the set and the staging, the backdrop representing a garden is easy to find, but "the biggest difficulty lies in the installation of the spider's web. There is, at the Opéra Comique, a steel wire web" often lent to provincial theaters, but it is currently in Lille; "it is an accessory which is very delicate to install", and of a big weight... He suggests the idea "to make one out of rope, as it was done at the time of the creation at the Théâtre des Arts de Paris, in 1913. For the apple tree and the apple, the theater machinists would equip it for you, I think, quite easily"... A L.A.S. from Gabriel Pierné to the same one, June 11, 1937, one month before his death, is attached. "You sent me yesterday at the very hour of the concert, on behalf of the pupils of the choir of the Lycées de Jeunes filles de Paris et de Seine et Oise, the flowery homage of your dear children ". He " thanks your kind pupils for having sunned for me this stormy day by bringing me with roses the enchantment of their fresh and unforgettable collaboration ".
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