Last fall, the theme was the music of Igor Stravinsky and the dances it inspired.
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Into his films, as familiar as friends, walk famous names: Leonard Bernstein, Norman Mailer, Andrei Sakharov, Igor Stravinsky.
But other composers subsequently incorporated Wagner tubas into major works, most notably Anton Bruckner, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.
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George Balanchine, for example, is best remembered for the many "plotless" ballets that he made to the music of Igor Stravinsky.
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Igor Stravinsky's introductory music serves more as atmospheric soundtrack than as direct accompaniment when Ivan is bewildered and seemingly distracted by longings that twist and animate his body.
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Women, led by a "chosen one" of their number, according to the original scenario accompanying Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring, " also manage to dominate Yuri Possokhov's new ballet of the same name.
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When he joined with Igor Stravinsky at the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle the pianist, in typical fashion, insisted on carrying the composer's heavy bags to their backstage dressing rooms Cliburn performed Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto to a packed house on the first half of the program.
In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, Jascha Heifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.
But here, as with a segment called "Riffs on Agon" (which took inspirations of movement and music from Igor Stravinsky's "Agon, " a 1957 ballet by George Balanchine) and with the world premiere of "Orbit" (a composition for solo cello by Philip Glass), Lil Buck looked somewhat constrained held back by efforts based more on set choreography than improvisation.
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