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.

Other chapters on Diaghilev, Balanchine, and Prokofiev will follow in successive issues. Nicolas Nabokov November 1949 Issue The Specter of Nijinsky ...

<p>Updated Aug. 27, 2009</p><p>Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was a Russian ballet producer who was instrumental in opening dance to innovation, including the movement away from the artifice of the ...

But Prokofiev, the son of the manager of a large estate, was no political revolutionary. In 1918 he got himself a passport and took off across Siberia and the Pacific for the U.S.

Name in his creative years, he was to work under the stimulus of Diaghilev and in growing friendship with Stravinsky. Prokofiev, and Koussevitzky.

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 ...

Serge Diaghilev on a ship headed to the U.S. "The Rite" was not the first of Diaghilev's towering innovations, but it changed the world not just of dance but of the arts overall. Now even regional ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Gianandrea Noseda led his Washington ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a trio of works by George Walker, Prokofiev and Stravinsky. By Anastasia ...

Under the distinguished artistic direction of Maestro Vladimir Issaev, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida proudly presents Program III: Dancing Prokofiev and Ravel, an extraordinary tribute to two of ...

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!” ...

MUNICH — Sergei Prokofiev died the same day as Joseph Stalin: March 5, 1953. It’s a coincidence you’re more likely to come across in the composer’s biography than in Stalin’s.