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Word: agon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot, Fragment of an Agon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sibling Revelry | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Homage to Igor | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rightness of His Wrongs | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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