Word: agon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot, Fragment of an Agon...
...Agon. That masterpieces resulted anyway was amply proved last week as the New York City Ballet staged one of the cultural, or craftsmanlike, events of the decade. Billed as a Stravinsky Festival, the weeklong affair was nominally in honor of what would have been Stravinsky's 90th birthday. But the festival-featuring 3 1 ballets, of which 21 were world premières, set to Stravinsky's music-was also a celebration of the greatest single creative partnership in the history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together...
...home. Yet the two rivals maintained a chilly distance from their respective hilltops. It was only in 1953, two years after Schoenberg's death, that Stravinsky finally embraced serialism. Of the dozen or so twelve-tone works he produced prior to his death, the best by far were Agon (1957), Movements (1960) for piano and orchestra, and the "Huxley" Variations...