Word: petrouchka
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...late Pianist Anton Rubinstein, one of the greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke of Windsor...
...Quixote reminds me somehow of Petrouchka. It displays the same variety and endless change of pace, the same fertility of invention, and the same amazing use of woodwinds and brasses for striking effects. The introduction contains a weird passage describing the crack-up of Don Quixote's sanity, in which a set of muted trumpets, combined in almost psychopathic harmonies, leap out wildly from the rest of the orchestra and then immediately subside into nothing but troubled mutterings. The famous sheep episode employs muted brasses to suggest the bleating of the sheep, and further on, open trombones play a familiar...
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...