Word: diaghileff
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...opposite sex at Harvard, with nowhere to go for guidance but themselves. Conditions for young people today are very different from those that existed in 1915 when Edward Bok, grandfather of the present president of Harvard and editor of the Ladies Home Journal, turned down some photographs of Diaghileff Russian Ballet dancers offered him for publication in the magazine, because the dancers' skirts exposed their knees. He finally published them in the January 1916 issue, after he arranged with an air brush painter at a cost of $600 to lower the skirts a few inches below their knees. Despite changing...
...Diaghileff-His Artistic and Private Life-Simon & Schuster...
...European conductors will make Chicago debuts-the Russian Emil Cooper, leader of the first Diaghileff ballet, since the Russian Revolution a resident of Paris; and Egon Pollak of the Hamburg Staatsoper...
...strong reaction has set in among Parisian critics against the Russian fad (Balieff, Diaghileff, Rostov and a score of imitators...
...Rimsky Korsakow in 1867, has been called the first Russian symphonic poem. It was the germ from which the opera of the same name sprang in 1896. Korsakow re-orchestrated the tone-poem in 1891, the new version of which is always played. How it recalled the unforgettable Diaghileff Ballet Russe, and the gorgeous Bakst settings and costumes! Korsakow is always remarkably effective with the orchestra, no matter if at times he sounds banal on the pianoforte. The combination of the barbaric splendor or Russian folk-music and oriental sensuousness never fails to charm; his orchestration will forever serve...