Petrouchka
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Motley Crue's Stick to Your Guns, for instance, is going to lose any battle of the bands against Stravinsky's Petrouchka.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was followed a year later by the even more brilliant Petrouchka, in which the solo piano part projected a Pierrot-like puppet at a Russian fair�a part realized on the stage by the great Nijinsky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adolf Bolm contributed his portraits of the Moor in Petrouchka, of Pierrot in Carneval, and of the Chief Warrior in the dances from Prince Igor.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
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