Article: BERLIN STATE OPERA BALLET.(Brief Article)

BERLIN STATE OPERA BALLET

STAATSOPER UNTER DEN LINDEN BERLIN DECEMBER 20, 1998

The new double bill of the Berlin State Opera Ballet combines two works that were originally created over a nine-year period. However, a world war between the two world premieres changed the musical styles substantially. While Richard Strauss's Joseph's Legend (1914), with its lavish, ecstatic sound, conjured, perhaps for the last time, the fin-de-siecle mood, Paul Hindemith's rarely played Demon (1923) is a coolsober product of a completely new movement called Neue Sachlichkeit ("new functionality"). The connection between the two short ballets is the literary theme: ...

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