Talk:Apollo (ballet)

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Translated from French not humanly. How is it? Any opinions? Is this a stub? Should it be expanded? -- Andy Wang ^{(talk/contrb.)} 02:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

This article is in terrible need for sources! -- Andy W. ^{(talk/contrb.)} 01:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

I think the language is a little awkward, probably because of the translation from French. There are plenty of points in the text where I don't understand exactly what is said. I think this article can be improved in terms of language, clarity and perhaps structure.--Atavi 11:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

The language is very awkward-- probably because it was a bot translation. For instance, the phrase "to the Frenchwoman" sounds like a mistranslation of the phrase "French overture" -- Bwthemoose/Talk 13:51, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the long-languishing bot(ched) translation. The problem of sourcing remains.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:05, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Merge two entries

Is there any opposition to the merger of Apollo (ballet) and Apollon musagète? Robert Greer (talk) 19:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Merge two entries

Is there any opposition to the merger of Apollo (ballet) and Apollon musagète? — Robert Greer 19:00, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Not from me--if anything I think the Apollo (ballet) article is more idiomatic and informative.--Bwthemoose/Talk 20:49, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, in addition to which, Apollo is the title under which it is now performed.

NB The Apollon musagète entry has inter-Wiki links to French and Spanish that should be preserved. — Robert Greer 23:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. The ballet article is better, but the musical piece is famous in its own right and deserves an independent article. That article needs a lot of improvement, perhaps by moving most of the musical part of Apollo (ballet) to Apollon musagète. Zaslav (talk) 05:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

This can be handled by leaving a redirect from Apollon musagète to this article. — Robert Greer (talk) 20:40, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

First performance

(Please excuse that I am not an editor, and therefore possibly not writing this the approved Wikipedia way, and definitely not modifying the article myself. I will leave that to someone experienced.) The actual first performance was, as the article says, commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, for a 1928 performance at the Library of Congress. But what was performed was not merely the music, but an actual dance. However, that choreography (which was chronologically the first) was not by Balanchine but by Adolphe Bolm, who also danced it. The now-famous, and classic, Balanchine version was thus actually the second version ... although very soon after. Library of Congress source: I have also added this note on the page Talk:List of Apollo Stagings.

Dudley Brooks (talk) 01:46, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Aarrgghh!! I see that I did not scroll down far enough ... the article does list Bolm's version. I came to this page from the page "List of Apollo Stagings", which does not list it ... but then, that page is only about stagings of Balanchine's version, so I guess it's OK that it doesn't list Bolm's.

Apologies ... or should I say Apollogies?

Dudley Brooks (talk) 01:59, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

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