Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passport and took off across Siberia and the Pacific for the U.S. For the next 15 years he was a free-footed citizen of the world-composing operas (his Love for Three Oranges was premiered in Chicago in 1921), ballets (he collaborated with Paris' famed Impresario Serge Diaghilev for 15 years) and piano concertos which he himself triumphantly played on tour. At 40, he ranked with Strauss, Stravinsky and Schoenberg as one of the world's most challenging composers...
...school going, the rest was inevitable, just like a chemical reaction." He decided the style should reflect the elegance of the European court ballet tradition, and that the man to furnish it was famed Russian Choreographer George Balanchine. Kirstein induced him to leave Europe (where he had been Diaghilev's chief choreographer) and take over both the school and the performing companies...
Spaniards, who have seen little but heeltapping Spanish national dancing since Franco, gave their main applause to George Balanchine's new version of the classic Swan Lake. Oldsters in the audience had a dim memory, at least, of the classic style from the time when Diaghilev's Ballets Russes visited the Spain of Alfonso XIII. But they were more puzzled than pleased by such contemporary psychological pieces as Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. Balanchine himself noted "a vast difference from the fiery enthusiasm I see at bullfights here...
Monteux was born April 4, 1875, and studied at the Paris Conservatory. In 1911, as conductor of the Diaghilev Russian Ballet he introduced for the first time Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka," "Sacre du Printemps," and "Rossignol," Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chioe," and Claude Debussy's "Jeux...
Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...