Diaghilev
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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This collection’s pink and white aquarelle palette evoked the vibrant style of the Ballets Russes as envisioned by Léon Bakst and Sergei Diaghilev.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
There’s a postcard from Pablo Picasso scribbled so hastily that it’s hard to imagine it ever reached his Russian friend, Sergei Diaghilev.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2019
Armed with a Blackwing and a Kum Wedge, I sat down to write and commanded my new pencil to, in the words of Diaghilev, astonish me.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2018
When the young man declares dully that the faun must be naked, Diaghilev gets the snappy comeback: “God in His infinite wisdom created tights and a dance belt.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2018
Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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