Jueves: Old Vic

9 to 5 Laburo

Después pase x Waitrose y por casa

A las 6.30 partí al teatro, tuve suerte porque llegué justito antes de que empiece y además me vendieron una muy buena ubicación a 12 libras, lo cual apra Londres es barato...

La obra era The Soldier´s Tale, una coproducción Iraqui-Europea, donde los actores interactuaban con músicos y hablaban en inglés y árabe, muy interesante. Lo único malo es que el teatro no estaba muy lleno, en fin !

En el intervalo me encontré con Edward de la facu

A la salida bajé al bar a encontrarme con Sue y Josie, también estaba Catherine. Tomamos algo en el bar y a las 10.30 partimos. Era el cumple de Sue y Catherine asi que me contaron que habían comido en The Ivi, un restaurant típoco de la farándula y reee caro !

Hace un ofri de morirse asi que opté por el subte.

Aca hay un resumen de lo que vi, está muy bien descripto:

The Soldier's Tale comes from 1918, a lean post-war time when jazz was just beginning to emerge into the mainstream. Stravinsky was broke, deprived of his royalties because of the Revolution, and his other source of income, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes was also going through lean times.Stravinsky invented a new style, pared down to essentials, in melody, rhythm and instrumentation.

The Soldier's Tale is scored for just seven instruments: clarinet, bassoon, cornet, trombone, violin, double bass and percussion. The concert version also features four speaking parts, those of the Devil, the Soldier, a Princess and an unseen Reader. The Devil and Princess are also required to dance.

The story is a dark Faustian fable about a deserting soldier and the Devil who eventually possesses his soul. The soldier's violin becomes a symbol of both the soldier's soul and the Devil's wiles. The story is based on an old Russian folk tale but the music is as far removed from Russian traditionalism as possible, making it a lesson for all cultures and times. The most obvious sound here is jazz, a form of music that Stravinsky had never actually heard. He was familiar with it through scores that his friend Ernest Ansermet had brought from America.

Stravinsky also uses tango rhythms, marches, a waltz and a chorale, never faithfully but more as an artisan uses tools to fashion something new. The Soldier's Tale opens with the Soldier's March, a stiff parody of militarism, as befits a deserter.Next come the Soldier's Violin, rhythmic, repetitive, driving and typically Stravinsky.

Then come the Little Concert and Three Dances - Tango, Valse and Ragtime, the most musically elaborate of the works. The Suite ends brilliantly with the Devil's Dance, triumphant and diabolical. The violin theme now belongs to him and he owns the Soldier's soul. The Devil celebrates his victory.