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.

Ballet master Serge Lifar went on a technical revival at the Paris Opera Ballet, enhanced by Claude Bessy and Rudolf Nureyev in the 1980s.

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.

* December 15 – Serge Lifar, Russian dancer and choreographer ( b. 1905 )

The statue, donated by Serge Lifar, shows Nijinsky as the puppet Petrushka.

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

Tveitt then sent it to the choreographer Serge Lifar in London, where the score allegedly was lost in the Blitz.

) Two more positions were introduced by Serge Lifar during his career as Ballet Master at the Paris Opéra Ballet ( 1929 – 45, 1947 – 58 ); their use nowadays is mostly limited to Lifar's choreographies.

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Fascinated by a recital of Serge Lifar, he decided to devote himself entirely to dance.

* Serge Lifar

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.

Category: Ballets by Serge Lifar

* Grand Prix at the International Ballet Competition Serge Lifar in Ukraine in 1994

* Serge Lifar, 1942 / 43

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.

In the summer of 1994 on the stage of the National Ukraine Opera the First International Ballet Contest was held named after Serge Lifar.

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

* Ballet material and manuscripts from the Serge Lifar Collection, catalogue, Sotheby's, London, 1984

* Alexander SCHOUVALOFF, The Art of Ballets Russes: The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale University, 1998.

* Florence POUDRU, Serge Lifar: La danse pour patrie, Hermann, 2007, ISBN 978-2-7056-6637-8.

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.

Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg (; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991 ) was a French singer, songwriter, poet, composer, artist, actor and director.

Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff (; c. July 10, 1866 – September 3, 1951 ) was a French surgeon of Russian extraction who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s.

Serge Lang (; May 19, 1927 – September 12, 2005 ) was a French-born American mathematician.

Victor Serge (), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947 ), was a Russian revolutionary and writer.

Venerable Sergius of Radonezh (, Sergii Radonezhsky ), also transliterated as Sergey Radonezhsky or Serge of Radonezh, was a spiritual leader and monastic reformer of medieval Russia.

Serge Poltoratzky ( alternate spellings: Sergei or Sergey and Poltoratsky, Poltoratskii or Poltoratskiy ), 1803-1884, was a Russian literary scholar, bibliophile and humanitarian.

Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin, also known as Serge Soudeikine ( 19 March 1882 in Smolensk – 12 August 1946 in Nyack, New York ), was a Russian artist and set-designer associated with the Ballets Russes and the Metropolitan Opera.

Your invitation to write about Serge Prokofieff to honor his 70th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya Muzyka is accepted with pleasure, because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; ;

At this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

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.

It was important to Zola that no character should appear larger than life ; but the criticism that Zola ’ s characters are cardboard, is a substantially more damaging one which in view of the characterization of Gervaise Macquart ( L ' Assommoir ), Nana Coupeau ( Nana ), Jacques Lantier ( La Bête humaine ), Serge Mouret ( La Faute de l ' Abbé Mouret ), Jean Macquart ( La Terre ) and Pascal Rougon ( Le Docteur Pascal ), may seriously be doubted.

* 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 ).

The Rangers made the Finals twice in the 1970s, but lost both times to two ' 70s powerhouses ; in six games to the Boston Bruins in, who were led by such stars as Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Johnny Bucyk, and Wayne Cashman ; and in five games to the Canadiens in, who had Bob Gainey, Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Ken Dryden, Guy Lapointe, and Serge Savard.

The disparate styles can be attributed to Cocker and Mackey's different and changing tastes ; Mackey introduced Cocker to house music which led to them both going to raves, while Cocker introduced Mackey to " Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg ".

Dassault Group, ( ; GIMD, Groupe Dassault, or the Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault S. A .) is a French group of companies led by Serge Dassault.

Among the guests were Elgar, Beecham, Otto Klemperer, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler and Serge Koussevitzky ; soloists in the 1920s included Sergei Rachmaninoff, Artur Schnabel and the young Yehudi Menuhin.

Monteux's successor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitsky, invited many guest conductors during his twenty-five years in charge ; Monteux was never among them, probably, in Canarina's view, because of Koussevitsky's jealousy.

Other influences include psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd ; film composer Ennio Morricone ; krautrockers Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk ; early pioneers of the eurodance electronica subgenre Space ; Jean-Jacques Perrey and Claude Perraudin ( although there are some echoes of dance music styles in the production ); French crooner Serge Gainsbourg ( Histoire de Melody Nelson, for example ); and soft rock duo The Carpenters ( Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, for example ).

The first was in late October, when he performed on the Serge Gainsbourg tribute show that was recorded and posted on the Internet ; this was the only video of any Placebo member since Projekt Revolution ended in 2007.