"By imposing a passionate drama on an elaborate symphonic composiiton complete in itself, Fokine and his collaborators were going much further--committing a different kind of outrage. This bending of music to serve an action for which it was not intended would become a common practice in the next half century."
Richard Buckle, Diaghilev

common practice that we still have not outgrown...almost a century later. it is time to move forward.