Mr. Monteux held the bâton and gave the first American performance of Schumann’s “Papillons” postponed from the preceding Friday because of Miss Lopokova’s illness. To a very badly orchestrated version of Schumann’s lovely miniatures were executed ridiculous caperings by a Pierrot and some girls in crinoline (with wings, for a puerile simulation of butterflies) quite as stupid and pointless as those of “Les Sylphides” (which contributed its discarded settings for the act) and that bore about as much relation to Schumann’s work as to Kuhnau’s “Bible Sonatas.”
H. F. P., “Art of an American the Life of New Ballet,” Musical America, October 28, 1916, Internet Archive.