1927 was a big ballet year for Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. >From a Czech Philharmonic recording, we hear the overture to a Martinu ballet dating from 1927. It's called "Roll the Cameras!" ...

The Germans have a term, Gesamtkunstwerk, which translates as “total work of art,” but seems to be bandied more frequently, and poetically, as “synthesis of the arts.” Richard Wagner made much of the ...