Maestro Leon/Ludwig Minkus - Photo

[Solor]

-- Heres a pic of Maestro Minkus I thought you guys would like -

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4934/minkus5an.png

-- Heres another pne, this one is always in CD booklets, etc.

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4066/pic556bm.jpg

Anybody got any pics of Drigo, Schnietzhoeffer, Adam, or Pungi?

There is a pic of Pugni in Wiley's book "A Century of Russian Ballet", and a good one of Adam in the booklet that comes with Bonynge's recording of "Le Corsaire". Ive seen a picture of Drigo on the cover of a book of piano music a piano player had in one of my ballet classes when I was at SAB. I think that Balanchine includes a pic of him in his book "Balanchine's Tchaikovsky".

[silvy]

Thank you, Solor. I always wondered how he looked !!!!! He looks very serious and "Austrian" to me

[Solor]

any pics anyone?

[Mel Johnson]

Minkus was of Jewish ancestry, so his record was subject to "memory cleansing" during the WWII era inside the Reich. He was a foreigner in Russia, so likewise was subject to "cultural erasure" during the Stalin administration. Fortunately, in both dictatorships, the culture monitors tended to be more political than learned in the art they were supposed to be supervising, so some few things have survived to trickle back out to the mainstream. It's one reason why recording the provenance of an artifact in a collection is so important. Correlating where the surviving pieces came from, it makes seeking more a bit easier. This is as true for archival resources as for three-dimensional things.