Music for "Job"
ROMANTIC youth may like mosques, minarets, castles and cobbled. streets, not because théy are in them- ‘ selves beautiful, but because in their very unreality to people who live in a new country they provide an easy refuge for the imagination. With the consoli-_ dation of personality we realise that some of the features we have liked in| such things and in their offspring, Scheherazade, La Boheme, Carmen and _ Swan Lake are adventitious. We want something to which our own feelings are | in the direct line of succession. Listen- | ing to Vaughan Williams’s musical set-_ ting for the ballet, Job, taken from _ Blake’s engravings, I knew that this was a ballet I would not miss were it ever to come here. Beside Blake’s lofty imaginings there is a British solidity to the. figure of Job with bowed head and outstretched hands. According to the narrator on this 3YA programme people have been astonished at the success with which the "static" figures in Blake’s engravings have been translated into movement. "Static" is the wrong word to describe Blake’s tableaux. There is an implied movement in the engravings . that fits them for ballet and makes them the obvious choice of genius. What is not obvious in that choice is the austere
subject matter.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
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214Music for "Job" New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 722, 15 May 1953, Page 11
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