In this hour, how Diaghilev emerged triumphant to inspire and commission a decade of important music from Falla, Satie, Respighi, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev—and two more from Stravinsky.

Diaghilev commissioned nearly a dozen works by Stravinsky, including the sublime "Apollo" and Prokofiev's "The Prodigal Son," two ballets choreographed by George Balanchine at the beginning of his ...

Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary ... ballets (he collaborated with Paris’ famed Impresario Serge Diaghilev for 15 years) and piano concertos which he himself ...

Diaghilev, raised in the provincial Russian ... Matisse), music (Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Satie) and dance. The list of his protégés — Michel Fokine, Alicia Markova, Ninette de Valois, Marie ...

The concert will open with highlights from Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite," written for and rejected by Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes. Prokofiev rewrote the piece as a suite for a ...

New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 413 pages, $5 The Russian Renaissance is a curiously lovely thing to look back at over one’s shoulder, blending as it does priceless artistic magic with a touch ...

In a program of works by Prokofiev, Stravinsky and the underperformed ... “The Firebird,” written for the 1910 season of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Noseda instead led his Washington ...

A Pavlova, a Nijinsky, a Picasso! These names, now generic for high artistic achievement, all once worked for a man whose name has also become generic, Diaghilev—the greatest impresario in the ...

Sergey Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. Apart from the final years of his life, he managed more successfully than any other great Russian composer living under the dictatorship to maintain ...

DIAGHILEV’S EMPIRE: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World, by Rupert Christiansen In the early 21st century, millennials are mocked for saying, “I did a thing!” In the early 20th ...

But in Munich, it has become an urgent antiwar cry. By Joshua Barone MUNICH — Sergei Prokofiev died the same day as Joseph Stalin: March 5, 1953. It’s a coincidence you’re more likely to ...