{"id":5432,"date":"2024-03-27T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2024-03-14T12:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:43:23","slug":"arachnophonia-spartacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/2024\/03\/arachnophonia-spartacus\/","title":{"rendered":"Arachnophonia: Spartacus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> Arachnophonia<\/a> (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library<\/a>\u2018s collection.<\/p>\n

All links included in these posts will take you to either the library catalog record for the item in question<\/a> or to additional relevant<\/a> information from<\/a> around the web<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s installment of Arachnophonia<\/a> is by student manager Eli (class of 2024) and features Aram Khachaturi\u0361an’s ballet Spartacus<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Eli!<\/em><\/p>\n

Spartacus<\/em> – Aram Khachaturi\u0361an<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Spartacus<\/a><\/p>\n

Spartacus<\/a>, a gladiator turned revolutionary from present-day Bulgaria, lived for only thirty-two years before dying in battle against Roman legions in 71 BC. Yet, his name and infamy remain today, due to his initial success in leading a slave revolt against the might of the Roman Republic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Spartacus\u2019 story is the subject of countless pieces of media, from Stanley Kubrick\u2019s film 1960 Spartacus<\/em><\/a> to numerous novels and poems. Musicians have been equally inspired by the gladiator\u2019s exploits. In 1863, Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns<\/a> composed the “Spartacus Overture,” an often looked-over piece that won him first prize in a French music competition. For the 1960 film version, Alex North<\/a> composed “Love Theme from \u2018Spartacus,\u2019<\/a>” a beautiful ballad that has become a well-known jazz standard. Spartacus was even the subject of the Phantom Regiment\u2019s 2008 Drum Corps International championship-winning show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What receives the most attention, however, is Aram Khachaturi\u0361an<\/a>\u2019s score for his 1956 ballet Spartacus<\/em><\/a>. Upon its first composition two years earlier, Khachaturian was awarded a Lenin Prize<\/a>, one of the Soviet Union\u2019s most prestigious awards for contributions to science, literature, the arts, and more. Khachaturi\u0361an\u2019s score is considered a masterpiece and has been greatly used in popular culture, from references in the movie Ice Age: The Meltdown<\/a><\/em> to gold-medal figure skating performances. The adagio of act three is absolutely a must-listen, pulling at heartstrings and inspiring the listener in the same breath. If you would like to give the ballet a listen, Parsons Music Library has several<\/a> versions<\/a>, including one conducted by Khachaturian himself in 1962<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"Khachaturian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: Arachnophonia (\u201cArachno\u201d = spider \/ \u201c-phonia\u201d = sound) is a regular feature on our blog where members of the UR community can share their thoughts about resources from the Parsons Music Library\u2018s collection. All links included in these … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15223],"tags":[61217,230860,231266,15290,162521,206766,231264,231265],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","tag-arachnophonia","tag-arachnophonia-23-24","tag-aram-khachaturian","tag-ballet","tag-ballet-music","tag-eli","tag-spartacus","tag-spartacus-ballet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgMV3E-1pC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}