https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/sdorf/activity/ Activity feed for Samuel Dorf. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:17:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a8fe0ab38ebba3140d0cf98560732b60 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1683014/ Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:23:47 +0000 Musicologist and dance historian Samuel N. Dorf reflects on the role or purpose of the pre-performance lecture, especially at a time when tragedy extends outside the theatre into the local community.

]]> 0 75afb06f6d531eaf317ceddbd4c2e7a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607941/ Mon, 07 May 2018 14:43:19 +0000 This paper maps Isadora Duncan’s navigation of public and private venues, audiences, and receptions of “Greek” dances from her early career in Paris. I explore Duncan’s relationship with Paris’ lesbian communities and the proliferation of ancient Greek dance in both private and public venues. Through comparisons to her contemporaries I contend…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed583191fc9064845144061378a27b46 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607940/ Mon, 07 May 2018 14:37:45 +0000 This essay explores the conflicting trends of tradition and
modernism, unity and independence in Parisian musical and
dance culture in the late 1920s through an analysis of Maurice
Emmanuel’s (1863-1938) aesthetics of contemporary and
ancient Greek music and dance. It begins by outlining and
critiquing Emmanuel’s relevant scholarly con…[Read more]

]]> 0 41fc98b0ca2cf2e8beaf77d5a500c275 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607939/ Mon, 07 May 2018 14:29:15 +0000 This paper explores the simultaneous eroticization and exoticization of Ancient Greece in the choreography of Madame Mariquita (1830-1922) for the Opéra and the commodification of this exotic ancient Greek eroticism in the popular fashion and music press in fin-de-siècle Paris. Building on work by art historian, Nancy Troy, and musicologist Mary D…[Read more]

]]> 0 95dfadddda607bc60509c53b37298a4a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607938/ Mon, 07 May 2018 14:22:13 +0000 Encyclopedia entry
https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/satie-erik-alfred-leslie-1866-1925
DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM40

]]> 0 ccabfdf3923cc787dd1001a4e477f68d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591754/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:37:26 +0000 Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois was active from 1920 to 1925. It was the chief artistic rival to Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, and de Maré was often referred to as the Swedish Serge Diaghilev. With Jean Börlin as chief choreographer, the company created twenty-four ballets in collaboration with prominent modern artists and composers, includi…[Read more]

]]> 0 820d1b043d63df31a70dff7468bb8275 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591751/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 02:32:05 +0000 Talk on Beyoncé’s Lemonade and ANOHNI’s Hopelessness

]]> 0 acd7b1ab38929d619c491e255d611225 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591717/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:19:10 +0000 The following contributions are cited separately in RILM: John T. HAMILTON, Così fan tutti i compositori: The Cephalus-Procris myth and the birth of romantic opera in Hoffmann’s Aurora (RILM 2013-12919); Julia RANDEL, Un-voicing Orpheus: The powers of music in Stravinsky and Balanchine’s ‘Greek’ ballets (RILM 2013-12920).

]]> 0 7a8f7e30e8a3633b3239610dbd18be2a https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591713/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:14:28 +0000 Eva Palmer-Sikelianos (1874–1952), along with her husband, the poet Angehlos Sikelianos,
founded the first modern Delphic Festival in 1927 in an effort to revive the Ancient Greek rites that
took place on that spot over 2,500 years before. She invited “overseers of culture” from around
the globe to convene in the holy city of Delphi for a reena…[Read more]

]]> 0 3aa1ee4b3c39d8686262a30ac893bf9b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591710/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:10:01 +0000 In arguing that underneath the placid, ‘stripped-down’ style of Socrate there lurks a hidden violence, this essay does not focus on Satie’s compositional process, documented in his notebooks; instead, it examines Socrate’s performance history and the creation of the work’s libretto, which the composer completed before sketching his musical ideas.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b01a60190e260538fbe68b27f4b7c89e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591708/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:04:25 +0000 Sappho’s oeuvre exists in tantalizing fragments providing fodder for generations of interpreters to reimagine her life and poetry in myriad ways. The paper looks at three Parisian fantasies of Sappho: Charles Gounod’s first opera Sapho (1851 and 1884), Charles Cuvillier’s operetta Sapphô (1912), and the Sapphic music and dramatic activities held i…[Read more]

]]> 0 20d003ca8494a6434d58ebb86b06a8c7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1591706/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:58:21 +0000 Book review of Reviewed Works: Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella”: A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches by Maureen A. Carr; The Wendy Hilton Dance & Music Series 12 by Millicent Hodson

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