09/15/2019
From the first edition: "The time, early 1915, Europe engulfed in the First World War, Russia in a terrorizing October Revolution. The place, a newspaper office in St. Petersburg, a young editor by the name of Peter Ouspensky is reading The Voice of Moscow. Through spectacles his eyes fall on an advertisement, the headline reads: "Struggle of the Magicians"..Choreographed and staged for the first time more than a century ago, this ballet became a magnet attracting thousands of spiritually disillusioned men and women to performances in Europe and the U.S., and then it simply vanished from sight after WW II."
From the 2nd edition: The story -- recorded originally by Peter Ouspensky: His remarkable remembrance of a night with Gurdjieff transcribing lyrics for the Ballet that were never sung.
So why a 3rd edition? Answer: The de Hartmann transcriptions of Gurdjieff's musical compositions and the Movements. Here we close the circle opened one hundred years ago this year (2019) in a Moscow newspaper office with G. the musical composer and G. the choreographer, whom G. the esoteric teacher carefully and humbly hid from us all. Only the effects of his genius we ever saw, not the Source. 64 Pages. Illustrated. Blue Logic Facebook Store. $14.95. Ebook with hyprlinks to de Hartmann and Gurdjieff Sacred Dances $8.99.