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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.
Check, Inc., which developed the original Pageonce program later renamed Check, was founded in May 2007 [4] and had offices in Palo Alto, CA and in Israel. Check raised $1.5M in capital investment from Liron Petrushka and Bobby Lent in January 2008, [5] and a further $6.5M from Pitango Venture Capital in December 2009.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Israeli couple Liron and Naomi Petrushka were killed in a single-engine plane crash Saturday night near Truckee, according to authorities.
While her sisters worked, she became friends with a servant named Petrushka, who excited her "first erotic sensations". [14] Later in Papilė she witnessed a peasant being whipped with a knout in the street. This event traumatized her and contributed to her lifelong distaste for violent authority. [15]
The lirone (or lira da gamba) is the bass member of the lira family of instruments that was popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is a bowed string instrument with between 9 and 16 gut strings and a fretted neck.