Word: petrouchka
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...group played a compendium of works from this year's repertoire: Brahms' Variations on a Theme of Haydn, the first part of Stravinsky's Petrouchka, and the third and fourth movements of Brahms' Symphony Number 2 in D Major...
...dazzling merger of Stravinsky and Varese with rock and rhythm and blues. Who else would have thought to counterpoint the Berceuse from Stravinsky's Firebird with the doo-wop of Duke of Earl on a song called The Duke of Prunes? To quote The Rite of Spring and Petrouchka as a prelude to some of the hardest-charging, straight-ahead rock of the era? To use Varese's musique concrete, which alters conventionally produced sounds to create an electronic effect, in a paean to rock-groupie archetype Suzy Creamcheese...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Movements de Petrouchka...
Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...
...before he had worked out the big change of his mature style, from black and white to color. At the same time, there was never much interest in his early efforts. The paintings of industrial landscapes from his youth, city streets, bar scenes and alienated clowns (Nijinsky as Petrouchka, done from an old photograph, was a favorite image) were seen, if at all, as a mere prelude to his abstract work. They did not look as "interesting" as the early work of his colleagues because Kline was the only abstract expressionist not touched by surrealism. He painted as though...