Word: petrouchka
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Stravinsky: Suite from Petrouchka (Igor Stravinsky conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia: 4 sides). Beautifully recorded excerpts from a ballet about the troubles of a puppet...
...reorganizations, they are the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. From the beginning, much of their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome. S. (for "Sol" for Solomon) Hurok, impresario of the ballet, was playing a super. With him, similarly disguised, was Sportsman-Angel Julius Fleischmann (yeast), head of World-Art, Inc., which owns...
...later compositions created anywhere near the fuss & feathers that the Sacre did, but Stravinsky remained the greatest ballet composer of modern times, and one of the half-dozen most important symphonic composers of the 20th Century. With audiences nowadays he is popular chiefly for two early ballet scores: Petrouchka (1911) and the orchestral suite from his fairy-tale ballet The Firebird...