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Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes by Alexandre Benois , who assisted Stravinsky with the libretto.
Liron Petrushka, 57, was trying to land his single-engine Daher-Socata TBM700N turboprop Saturday evening when, according to airport officials, he crashed after a missed approach. He and Naomi ...
Petrushka’s former team, Hapoel Ramat Gan Givatayim, identified the victims in a statement. “The club bows its head for the death of Liron Petrushka and his wife,” said the team’s chairman ...
The name "Petrushka" originally and primarily refers to the specific stock character of the Russian carnival puppetry.However, like Guignol, due to the central role Petrushka played in the puppet theatre, it also has come to refer to the tradition more generally (sometimes referred to as balagan (балаган) after the carnival booths in which the plays were enacted), or even the general ...
Israeli couple Liron and Naomi Petrushka were killed in a single-engine plane crash Saturday night near Truckee, according to authorities.
After an English anarchist named John Turner was arrested under the Anarchist Exclusion Act and threatened with deportation, Goldman joined forces with the Free Speech League to champion his cause. [83] The league enlisted the aid of noted attorneys Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters, who took Turner's case to the US Supreme Court.
The full score was completed on 11 May 1911, and on the following 13 June Petrushka was performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, under the baton of Pierre Monteux. [1] Three Movements from Petrushka for the solo piano were composed ten years later for his friend, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and are dedicated ...
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