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The Song of the Nightingale
ballet by Stravinsky
Also known as: “Le Chant du rossignol”
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choreography by Balanchine
- In George Balanchine: The American years
…Le Chant du rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale) for the Ballet Russe in 1925. A long series of Stravinsky–Balanchine ballets followed; some of them were composed in collaboration. In 1972, a year after Stravinsky’s death, the New York City Ballet staged a Stravinsky Festival. Ten years later, in…
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designs by Matisse
- In Henri Matisse: Riviera years of Henri Matisse
…Diaghilev’s production of the ballet Le Chant du Rossignol. He returned to sculpture, which he had neglected for several years, and by 1930 he had completed his fourth and most nearly abstract version of The Back, a monumental female nude in relief, on which he had been working at intervals…
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