Word: petrouchka
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...Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable to the bounce of basketball against iron...
Stravinsky's Petrouchka comes from a period in the composer's career during which he stressed Russian themes and styles in his music. This ballet suite uses the orchestra in some unique ways: Stravinsky occasionally makes the orchestra a vehicle for visual as well as aural effects: when the whole orchestra makes a tremolo, the players seem to shake together...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will present Schutz's "The Christmas Story" and Stravinsky's "Petrouchka Balllet Suite" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theatre. Tickets are $1, $2, $3 at the Coop or the door...
Begun in 1915 and completed in 1923 for Diaghilev, Les Noces ends the series of "barbaric" ballets that includes L'Oiseau de Feu, Petrouchka, and Le Sacre du Printemps. Like the others, it embodies Russian folk spirit, according to Stravinsky. It is a setting of peasant remarks, mostly cliches, appropriate to a wedding: "Mother, brush my tresses"; "glory to the father, glory to the mother"; "to the wedding, to the wedding...
...conducting his own oratorio El Pesebre has been followed by Folk Songsters Peter, Paul and Mary conducting 13,934 folkniks into collective rapture. One night jazz holds court, with Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald; another night the classical reigns, as that 20th century master Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Petrouchka suite, the Two Little Suites and Scherzo a La Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear Aug. 6-11, performing two of George Balanchine's latest ballets. The greatest U.S. prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, has just rejoined the company. ∙ASPEN...