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

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

Jessie Wilcox Smith: Prince At the Bed

Sleeping Beauty

Valse

Another version which shows

pictures of Russia

where Tchaikovsky lived:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sU4mgkGtrs&feature=related

Maxfield Parrish: Sleeping Beauty 

Sleeping Beauty

Soundtrack Movie, 1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGeAT5Lk0Xw

Victor Vasnetsov: Sleeping Beauty

Hans Zatska: Sleeping Beauty

Henry Meynell Rheam: Sleeping Beauty 

Sleeping Beauty Ballet

Kirov Ballet, 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-a4HjwuuEs

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

Arthur Rackham: Sleeping Beauty

Arthur Quiller-Couch: Sleeping Beauty, 1910

John Duncan: Sleeping Princess, 1915

Nadezha Illarionova: Sleeping Beauty