Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", IV. Finale. Adagio Lamentoso-Andante
- Suite: Pathétique
- Music:
Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique", IV. Finale. Adagio Lamentoso-Andante
- Original choreography by: Isadora Duncan (1921)
Notes
Nadia Chilkovsky Nahumck
Reference: Nahumck, Nadia Chilkovsky. Isadora Duncan: The Dances. Washington DC: The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994.
[Isadora] Duncan created the dance four years after the Russian Revolution. It portrays a solitary, grief-stricken supplicant descending to the floor, crushed and desolate.
Lillian Loewenthal
Reference: Loewenthal, Lillian. The Search for Isadora: The legend & legacy of Isadora Duncan. Dance Horizons, 1993.
It is in the fourth movement, the Adagio Lamentoso, that Nozière gave testimony to Isadora's intense imagination and emotive depths. With forceful symbolism she is earth-mother in a dolorous plaint for the slain in battle. A striking metaphor for maternal grief, she kneels and weeps for the dead children of man, and with an immense, surging movement of torso and arms, she wrests them from the void, pressing them against her body, to shelter within her womb. The critic wrote: "Such feelings demand symphonic scope. Beyond words is the sublimity of these movements; the most moving, most profound and human homage that could have been rendered the dead."
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