Petrouchka
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Stravinsky's Capriccio for piano and orchestra is the composer at his quirkiest with hints of his "Petrouchka."
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2012
As Petrouchka in Stravinsky's tragicomedy celebrating the Russian Punch, Panov combined Chaplinesque humor with a mime's mastery of the mysterious language of silence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born and schooled in Russia, he set European balletomanes abuzz in 1911 when he danced Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
One will not find Stravinsky's Petrouchka or Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F on RCA's lists, for example, but Clyde Key has them and hopes to release them one of these days.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Petrouchka" has a brilliance and vivacity and madness that makes Rimsky's scenes from popular life, his utilizations of vulgar tunes and dances scarcely comparable to it.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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