Zwischen Antike und X

The descendants of Terpsichore, remarks on a Russian ballet influenced by ancient Greek elements of performance in connection with Oriental poetry

“…It is worth to mention that on occasion of the Tokyo Summer Festival titled "Music and Literature" in June, 29 th , 2002, German author and poet Durs Grünbein discussed a similar theory in his lecture "Betonte Zeit" 14 ("sounded time"/"sound of time", G.Z.). He suggested that the poem is a music-arrangement in waiting ("Denn das Gedicht ist ein Tonsatz im Wartestand") 15 , because he defined that textual letters are the same like music-notes for the sound of music: "Buchstaben sind, so gesehen, für den Laut, der das Bild nach sich zieht, das gleiche wie Notenzeichen in der Musik" 16 whilst the echo of both remains in the ear of each art's recipients.…”