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Thursday, November 13, 2014

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014

QUOTE:
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”









COMPOSER
TCHAIKOVSKY

Sleeping Beauty
Ballet Op. 66
“Sleeping Beauty” for the Mikhailovsky Theatre by Petr Titarenko
“Sleeping Beauty” for the Mikhailovsky Theatre
John Collier: Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty
Valse
(Made famous by Walt Disney)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qcJsx7FR4
John D. Batten: Sleeping Beauty The Princess pricks her Finger, 1895
Vintage Sleeping Beauty Illustration--Jessie Wilcox Smith-Prince At the Bed
Jessie Wilcox Smith: Prince At the Bed
Sleeping Beauty
Valse
Another version which shows
pictures of Russia
where Tchaikovsky lived:

Maxfield Parrish: Sleeping Beauty 
Sleeping Beauty
Soundtrack Movie, 1959


Victor Vasnetsov: Sleeping Beauty
Hans Zatska: Sleeping Beauty
Henry Meynell Rheam: Sleeping Beauty 
Sleeping Beauty Ballet
Kirov Ballet, 1989

Sleeping Beauty, Edmund Dulac
Edmund Dulac: Sleeping Beauty
Walter Crane: Sleeping Beauty
The story is the famous fairy-tale set to music and dance. The original 
version of the tale on which the ballet is based was written
 and published by Charles Perrault

under the name, "La Belle au bois dormant"
(The Sleeping Beauty) in Paris, 1697.
Edward Frederick Brewtnall: Sleeping Beauty
THE STORY:
http://www.storynory.com/2005/12/16/the-sleeping-beauty/
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Edward Burne Jones: Sleeping Beauty, 1890
Thomas Spence: Sleeping Beauty
Frances MacDonald: The Sleeping Princess, 1910
This illustration came from:    Gosse, Edmund, introduction. The Allies' Fairy Book. Arthur Rackham, illustrator. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1916.
Arthur Rackham: Sleeping Beauty
These illustrations came from:    Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur. The Sleeping Beauty and Other Tales From the Old French. Edmund Dulac, illustrator. New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
Arthur Quiller-Couch: Sleeping Beauty, 1910
John Duncan : Sleeping Princess 1915
John Duncan: Sleeping Princess, 1915
Sleeping Beauty by Nadezha Illarionova
Nadezha Illarionova: Sleeping Beauty