Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under Rimsky, Stravinsky wrote his first dazzling orchestrations. But it was the late Sergei Diaghilev who established the young composer throughout the world. Diaghilev and his choreographer, Fokine, heard the swirling Fireworks, which Stravinsky wrote as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter. Fokine told Diaghilev that it made him see flames in the sky. For a shrewd entrepreneur like Diaghilev that was sufficient. In 1910 Stravinsky was commissioned to write The Firebird...
...TIME, Jan. 1). Nearly 25,000 U. S. readers, many of whom had never seen a Russian ballet, caught much of its fascination from Nijinsky, the mad dancer's biography written by his Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them...
...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...
...Russe heaved a silvered wooden hammer at the head of a gilded wooden nail (which he hit), history was also made. But history of a lighter mood. Union Pacific, the first U. S. ballet to reach the repertory of the great Russian school of dancing made famous by Serge Diaghilev, had had its world premiere...
...NIJINSKY, by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($3). *An entrechat consists of flicking the heels together in the air. With the exception of Nijinsky, his wife says, no modern dancer has been able to do more than eight. *Diaghilev can never prove his innocence. He died five years...