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...next evening, Charles Munch will conduct the BSO in a performance of Stravinsky's "Agon;" Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and "La Mer," by Debussy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tanglewood Trip Departs Friday At Thayer Gate | 7/24/1958 | See Source »

...Eliot's Fragment of an Agon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Quiet Man | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Next came the hugely complex Agon, Balanchine's danced counterpoint to Stravinsky's brilliant, abstract score (TIME, Dec. 16). Two weeks ago Balanchine presented the elaborately costumed Gounod Symphony, an intricate construction on the French composer's first symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Balanchine's Big Season | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...approaching Igor Stravinsky's new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could possibly make of it. Here and there the music suggests images of human activity. Fanfares sound: Are they bugle calls for some grand but ragged army? A truncated funeral march is heard: Is a man or an age being mourned? A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Stravinsky Ballet | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...music. Rhythm alone, motion for its own sake, take over. And that is the clue to what George Balanchine has done by way of choreography. Unlike his previous "neoclassic" collaborations with Stravinsky (Apollo, Orpheus), this work is abstract dance: there are no costumes or scenery and the Greek title, Agon (contest), does not denote a conflict of plot but simply a sort of dancers' free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Stravinsky Ballet | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

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