Satie's PARADE, 1917 "un succès de scandale"

—From the program notes for the ballet PARADE, by the poet Guillaume Apollinaire:

“[Parade] is a scenic poem transposed by the innovative musician Erik Satie into astonishingly expressive music, so clear and simple that it seems to reflect the marvelously lucid spirit of France. The cubist painter Picasso and the most daring of today’s choreographers, Léonide Massine, have here consummately achieved, for the first time, that alliance between painting and dance, between the plastic and mimetic arts, that is a herald of the more comprehensive art to come... This new alliance — I say new because until now scenery and costumes were linked only by factitious bonds — has given rise, in Parade, to a kind of surrealism, which I consider to be the point of departure for a whole series of Manifestations of the New Spirit that is making itself felt today and that will certainly appeal to our best minds.” —Apollinaire

“After the blow of the Rite of Spring, Satie gives us Parade a ballet created in collaboration with Picasso, Cocteau and Massine, one of the most beautiful successes of the Ballets Russes, where the nostalgia of the music-hall, transposed, offers us a totally unsuspected art, thus opening the way for the young musicians who will form the post-war French school.” —Darius Milhaud