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
Among his 70-odd ballets are most of the modern school's best-known works: Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, et al.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The lorn Petrouchka began to seem like a Slavic Jimmy Cagney.
From Time Magazine Archive
As La Ballerine in Petrouchka, too, she met all the requirements of the action.
From Interpreters by Van Vechten, Carl
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