During 1928 – 29 Prokofiev composed what was to be the last ballet for Diaghilev, The Prodigal Son, which was staged on 21 May 1929 in Paris with Serge Lifar in the title role.

51, a work commissioned by Serge Lifar, who had been appointed maitre de ballet at the Paris Opéra.

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (;, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, ; 19 August 1929 ), usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

* French — Duhamel, Antoine: Pierrot le fou: Four Pieces for Orchestra ( 1965 / 66 ); Françaix, Jean: Pierrot, or The Secrets of the Night ( 1980 ; ballet, libretto by Michel Tournier ; see above under Fiction ); Lancen, Serge: Masquerade: For Brass Quintet and Wind Orchestra ( 1986 ; # 3: " Pierrot "); Naulais, Jérôme: The Moods of Pierrot ( n. d .; flute and piano ).

Having helped put her husband's principality on a sound financial footing, she would devote her energies to making Monaco one of Europe's great cultural centers with its opera, theater, and the ballet under the direction of the famed Russian impresario, Serge Diaghilev.

In his humorous ballet Les animaux modèles ( 1942, with Serge Lifar ) Poulenc used the theme of a French patriotic song without the German officers noticing.

Le Roi nu ( The Naked King ), a 1935 ballet with music by Jean Françaix, libretto and choreography by Serge Lifar

Nolan's lifelong engagement with the theatre began in 1939 when he was commissioned to create décor for French ballet dancer Serge Lifar's revised version of Icare.

The ballet was composed 1916-1917 for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Prokofiev, who had been working on the opera for years, was reluctant to let the music languish unperformed, and after hearing a concert performance of its second act given by Serge Koussevitzky in June 1928, he adapted parts of the opera to make his third symphony ( shortly afterwards, he drew on his ballet The Prodigal Son for his Symphony No. 4 in similar fashion ).

* 1941 Gala Performance – ballet to the music of Serge Prokofiev – dancer in the role of an " Attendant Cavalier "

His stay in the United States on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship from 1949 to 1951 was a fruitful one for his orchestral writing, another notable area of his work ; during this time he composed the Tanglewood Overture for Serge Koussevitsky, and the Berkshire Symphonies, later used as ballet music by George Balanchine.

The ballet was first performed in 1935 in Prague, and a year later in Paris by the dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, which was an exceptional success for Szymanowski nearly a year before his death.

As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Serge Diaghilev, Benois ' influence on the modern ballet and stage design is considered seminal.

In 1924, Erik Satie introduced Sauguet to Serge Diaghilev, the flamboyant impresario of the Ballets Russes, and he wrote his first ballet, Les Roses ( Roses ) that year.

Serge Lifar (; Sergey Mikhaylovich Lifar, ; Serhіy Mуkhailovуch Lуfar ); 15 December 1986 ) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer of Ukrainian origin, famous as one of the greatest male ballet dancers of the 20th century.

From 1930 on, Serge Lifar was immensely successful, essentially in his own ballet creations, notably with Les Créatures de Prométhée ( 1929 ), a personal version of Le Spectre de la rose ( 1931 ) and L ' Après-midi d ' un faune ( 1935 ), Icare ( 1935 ) with costumes and decor by Picasso, Istar ( 1941 ) or Suite en Blanc ( 1943 ), which he qualified as neoclassical, all created for the Paris Opera.

* Jean LAURENT & Julie SAZANOVA, Serge Lifar, rénovateur du ballet français, Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 1960.

Petit trained at the Paris Opéra Ballet school under Gustave Ricaux and Serge Lifar and began to dance with the corps de ballet in 1940.

Dancers such as Alicia Markova, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, and Lydia Sokolova remembered Diaghilev fondly, as a stern but kind father-figure who put the needs of his dancers and company above his own.

The Serge Prokofieff whom we knew in the United States of America was gay, witty, mercurial, full of pranks and bonheur -- and very capable as a professional musician.

His life-long friend, Serge Koussevitzky, gave unreservedly of his praise and brilliant performances in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.,, to which he added broadcastings and recordings for the whole nation.

* Lancel, Serge.

The document was signed for Russia by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Industry Minister Ilya Klebanov, while Prime Minister Andranik Markarian and defense and security strongman Serge Sarkisian signed for Armenia.

The debt arrangements have been personally negotiated by ( then ) Defense Minister ( and now President ) Serge Sarkisian, Kocharian ’ s closest political associate.

* 1928 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer, songwriter, actor and director ( d. 1991 )

He picked up another credited Weil conjecture, around 1967, which later under pressure from Serge Lang ( resp.

After appearing in more than forty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights.

In 1996, Serge Vaudenay found a known-plaintext attack requiring 2 < sup > 8r + 1 </ sup > known plaintexts to break, where r is the number of rounds.

* Serge Vaudenay, " On the weak keys of Blowfish ," Fast Software Encryption ( FSE ' 96 ), LNCS 1039, D. Gollmann, Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 27 – 32.

Bartók's last work might well have been the String Quartet No. 6 but for Serge Koussevitzky's commission for the Concerto for Orchestra.

In 1984, Marker was invited by producer Serge Silberman to document the making of Akira Kurosawa's film Ran.

* Christian Passage On St. Serge & St. Bacchus

Recent writers have included Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque, Vincent Ostria, Charles Tesson and Franck Nouchi, André Téchiné, Léos Carax, Olivier Assayas, Danièle Dubroux, and Serge Le Péron.

* David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grunberg.

* Serge Grünberg, ed.

The leading figure of the double bass in the early 20th century was Serge Koussevitzky, best known as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who popularized the double bass in modern times as a solo instrument.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Eventually, the first definite cleavage between ballet and ballroom came when professional dancers appeared in the ballets, and the ballets left the Court and went to the stage.

Professional dancers began to take the place of court amateurs, and ballet masters were licensed by the French government.

Today most guitarists undergo rigorous professional training and often can read and play music in other styles: many dancers take courses in ballet and contemporary dance as well as flamenco.

The Kansas City Ballet, founded in 1957 by Tatiana Dokoudovska, is a ballet troupe comprising 25 professional dancers and apprentices.

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When Ravel used a 5 / 4 time in the final part of his ballet Daphnis and Chloe ( 1912 ), dancers of the Ballets Russes sang Ser-ge-dia-ghi-lev during rehearsals to keep the correct rhythm.

In the 1970s, top Soviet dancers began to develop a more theatrical style of ice dancing incorporating elements of ballet and often based on narrative program themes.

Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872

It is best known in the form of late Romantic ballet or Ballet Blanc, which preoccupies itself with the female dancer to the exclusion of almost all else, focusing on pointe work, flowing, precise acrobatic movements, and often presenting the dancers in the conventional short white French tutu.

Both these pieces were considered innovative for their use of distinctly modern movements melded with the use of pointe shoes and classically trained dancers — for their use of contemporary ballet.

In the last year of the century, Pierrot appeared in a Russian ballet, Harlequin's Millions a. k. a. Harlequinade ( 1900 ), its libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa, its music by Riccardo Drigo, its dancers the members of St. Petersburg's Imperial Ballet.

These solo performers, duos, groups, etc., may be singers, dancers ( ballet, hip hop, tap, jazz, etc.

Through his authorship of the scenario of the ballet Giselle, one of the foundation works of the dance repertoire, his influence remains as great among choreographers and dancers as among critics and balletomanes of ballet.

The film stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina, renowned dancers from the ballet world, as well as Esmond Knight and Albert Basserman.

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She is widely regarded as one of the finest classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev.

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