{"id":467,"date":"2014-10-05T12:31:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2020-03-14T03:51:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T10:51:52","slug":"bohuslav-martinu-le-revue-de-cuisine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/?page_id=467","title":{"rendered":"Bohuslav Martinu: &#8216;Le Revue de Cuisine&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 41\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Bohuslav Martinu\u2019s suite from <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">La Revue de Cuisine <\/span>is drawn from a ballet, and has a plot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twirling Stick is threatening the marriage of Pot and Lid.<br \/>\nPot is tempted by the overtures of Twirling Stick, and succumbs somewhat.<br \/>\nDishcloth is interested in Lid, but so is Broom, who challenges Lid to a duel.<br \/>\nPot tires of Twirling Stick, but Lid is nowhere to be found.<br \/>\nWhen Lid is kicked back onstage by a big foot, Pot and Lid come together again.<br \/>\nTwirling Stick leaves with Dishcloth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s an odd plot, but tighter than most operas. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">La Revue de Cuisine <\/span>is built with a jazz\/cabaret idea in mind \u2014 the word \u2018revue\u2019 in this case refers to something like the Ziegfield follies or a nightclub act, but featuring kitchen utensils. It is not particularly serious.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">La Revue de Cuisine <\/span>comes very evidently of 1920s Paris \u2014 the Paris\u00a0of Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Josephine Baker, Maurice Chevalier, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, to name a few. Martin? arrived in 1923 as a student and stayed there until 1941, when he fled to the United States ahead of the German invasion. In 1953 Martinu returned to Europe, where he lived until 1959.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bohuslav Martinu\u2019s suite from La Revue de Cuisine is drawn from a ballet, and has a plot: Twirling Stick is threatening the marriage of Pot and Lid. Pot is tempted by the overtures of Twirling Stick, and succumbs somewhat. Dishcloth is interested in Lid, but so is Broom, who challenges Lid to a duel. Pot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timsummers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}