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Berners. A Wedding Bouquet. Vocal Score. Sheet Music. Vocal score. VS. Lord Berners.

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Berners. A Wedding Bouquet. Sang telling. Sheet Music. Sang telling. VS. Here Berners.

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A Wedding Bouquet was the idea of Lord Berners, who wanted Frederick Ashton to make a ballet pantomime out of one of Gertrude Stein's plays and who both wrote the music and designed the "decor" and costumes. The name of the play was 'They must be Wedded to Their Wife', but this was thought too long for advertising and was changed to A Wedding Bouquet. Lord Berners went to visit Gertrude Stein in Bilignin and she liked the idea and he found in her house a carpet which gave him the pattern for the backcloth for the ballet. The ballet was first spoken of as a choral ballet and the opera chorus did sing or chant the words at the early performances, but it was entirely unlike any other choral ballet before or since. The words explained the action, introduced the characters, made utterly irrelevant comments, worked themselves into a frenzied rhythmical accompaniment or injected on occasional apt phrase that devastated dancers and audience alike. Not all of the words have ever been really intelligible but gradually the audience got to know certain phrases by heart and the ballet has a devoted public, although inevitably it has always been a rather special one and to this day there are people who detest the whole affair, don't 'understand' it, and think it an absurd waste of time and talent.

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A Wedding Bouquet was die idee van Here Berners wat Frederick Ashton wou 'n ballet pantomime te maak van een van Gertrude Stein se speel en wat beide die musiek geskryf en ontwerp om die "dekor" en kostuums. Die naam van die spel is "Hulle moet innig verbonde aan die hul vrou", maar dit is te lank vir advertensies gedink en verander na 'n troue Bouquet. Here Berners het Gertrude Stein te besoek in Bilignin en sy hou van die idee en hy het in haar huis 'n mat wat hom die patroon vir die decor vir die ballet. Die ballet is vir die eerste gepraat as 'n koor ballet en opera koor het gesing of sing die woorde in die vroeë optredes, maar dit was heeltemal anders as enige ander koor ballet voor of na. Die woorde verduidelik die aksie, het die karakters, gemaak heeltemal irrelevant kommentaar, gewerk hulself in 'n oordrewe ritmiese begeleiding of ingespuit op Sosiale bekwaam frase wat dansers en die gehoor verwoes gelyk. Nie al die woorde het al ooit regtig verstaanbaar maar geleidelik die gehoor het sekere frases deur die hart om te weet en die ballet het 'n toegewyde publiek, hoewel onvermydelik was dit nog altyd 'n redelik spesiale een en tot vandag toe daar is mense wat die hele verafsku saak, dit nie 'verstaan', en dink dit 'n absurde vermorsing van tyd en talent.