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Petrushka - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  In 1910, The Firebird was put into development for the Ballets Russes. ... Stravinsky was thinking of the Russian hand puppet, Petrushka, when he wrote the concert ... The orchestra in turn retaliates with menacing trumpet blasts." ... Stravinsky put some popular Russian folk tunes into the score as well...
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Discovering Stravinsky's "Firebird" : The story and the music | Igor ...  Jun 11, 2014 - 15 minHis compositions include The Firebird Suite, Symphony in E-Flat Major, and The  Rite of Spring ...
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Petrushka | LA Phil  Feb 16, 2016 ... Stravinsky wrote to his mother: my Petrushka is turning out each day completely ... The music opens with a bustling fair day: crowds and glittering attractions ... low strings, erupting into a fantastic, oddly accented full-orchestra fiesta. ... Here we also meet the Ballerina and the Blackamoor, and the three...
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Free Flashcards about MUSIC 2 - StudyStack  IN 1874 RICHARD WAGNER & HIS WIFE MOVED INTO HAUS WAHNFRIED, A HOME IN THIS CITY, PAID ... HIS "WATER MUSIC" IS COMPOSED OF 2 INSTRUMENTAL SUITES, HANDEL .... THIS RUSSIAN TURNED SOME OF THE MUSIC HE WROTE FOR THE BALLET "PETRUSHKA" INTO A SUITE, STRAVINSKY.
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Petrushka (ballet) - Wikipedia  Petrushka (French: Ptrouchka; Russian: ) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 191011 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky composed the music, and, with Alexandre Benois, fashioned ... Later, he said: "In composing the music, I had in my mind a distinct picture of a puppet, suddenly...
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Igor Stravinsky | Russian composer | Britannica.com  Russian-born composer whose work had a revolutionary impact on musical thought and ... the musical score for a new full-length ballet on the subject of the Firebird. ... Meanwhile, Stravinsky had conceived the idea of writing a kind of symphonic .... His last major work, Requiem Canticles (1966), is a profoundly moving...
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Scheherazade | work by Rimsky-Korsakov | Britannica.com  Apr 8, 2016 ... Orchestral suite by Russian composer Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov that was ... the young wife of the sultan Schahriar (Shahryar), telling tales to her husband to ... The second movement,  The Story of the Kalandar Prince,  opens with ... suite Scheherazade, and Russian Easter Festival (1888) overture.
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Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) - Wikipedia  Scheherazade, also commonly Sheherazade Op. 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888 and based ... Scheherazade consisted of a symphonic suite of four related movements that form a unified theme. ... he settled upon thematic headings, based upon the tales from The Arabian Nights.
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2013 Bard Music Festival: Stravinsky and His World by The Richard ...  Jul 31, 2013 ... Stravinsky received a new lease on life as a composer when he immigrated to the .... Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov at Paris Opra 1910 Premiere of The Firebird ... develops 12-tone method of composition 1922 Premiere of Mavra in Paris ...... He disguises himself as a female servant in her house, but...
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"Russian Dance" from the Nutcracker Ballet - Weber State University  The romantic in Tchaikovsky found its greatest outlet in his three great ballet ... The Nutcracker is a perennial Christmas favorite, and the well-known theme of the ... Tchaikovsky composed this ballet in Russian in 1892 just before he left for his ... Then a bridge of music comes in with the first part of dance repeating 2 more...
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Wikipedia  Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of ... Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. .... broke free from it, this did not stop him in his memoirs from extolling the older composer's talents as a critic and improviser. ...... My Musical Life.
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Introduction to Stravinsky, Fireworks and The Firebird ~ THE ...  Sep 16, 2010 ... Introduction to Stravinsky, Fireworks and The Firebird ... A Russian-born composer, Stravinsky later also held French and United States citizenship. ... He continued composing and performing and also made many revisions to earlier pieces. ... ballet score and the first work to bring him international acclaim.
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Prokofiev: Classical Symphony; Romeo And Juliet Suite No. 2; Suite ...  Many of his early works were modernist, and like many Russian artists, he was censored during the Soviet regime, but he was able to adapt to its restrictions...
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Free Flashcards about BALLET - StudyStack  HE COMPOSED THE MUSIC FOR THE BALLET "GHOST TOWN" 4 YEARS ..... WITH MUSIC BY STRAVINSKY, THIS BALLET TELLS OF A CLOWN PUPPET WHO GETS HIS HEART BROKEN, DIES AND BECOMES A GHOST, PETRUSHKA .... IN A FAMOUS STRAVINSKY BALLET, THIS TITLE CHARACTER IS IN LOVE...
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Jeopary Questions page 1415 - 1999 COMMENCEMENT ...  MYSTERY: In 1999's "Havana Bay" he brings back his "Gorky Park" investigator Arkady Renko  SUITE: Bela Bartok wrote his 1923 "Dance Suite" for the 50th...
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky - The Kennedy Center  Tchaikovsky was a leading Russian composer of the late 19th century, whose ... He is regarded as the master composer for classical ballet, as demonstrated by...
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Cinderella (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia  Cinderella Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. ... As the ballet opens, Cinderella is seen helping her step-mother and two step-sisters to prepare for the...
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Sergej Prokofiev - Musicien - Base de donnes musicale - Radio ...  In the summer of that year, Prokofiev composed his first symphony, the ... which prevented him from performing in Moscow, but in turn permitted him to ... Although the film had a very poor sound recording, Prokofiev adapted much of his score into a ... Prokofiev had been considering making an opera out of Leo Tolstoy's epic...
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Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story : NPR  May 12, 2007 ... Rimsky-Korsakov spins the tale in music. ... She marries the Sultan in order to save all future young women from this fate. ... Rimsky-Korsakov wrote Scheherazade (a symphonic suite) in the summer of 1888. ... This movement is called "The Tale of the Kalender Prince," and Rimsky-Korsakov uses exotic,...
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The Nutcracker - Wikipedia  The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov ... Tchaikovsky's score has become one of his most famous compositions, ... Petipa began work on the choreography in August 1892; however, illness ..... The Nutcracker Suite should not be mistaken for the complete ballet.
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Full text of "Choreographic art,: an outline of its principles and craft"  The choreographer occupies the centre of our stage, but the composer, ...... If, as Garrick said, Noverre was the Shakespeare of the dance, Vigano was its Shelley. ...... The music of a ballet is not invariably bad  there are good works of this ...... tracts from ballets like Vainonen's The Nutcracker and Fenster's Taras Bulba.