• Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) is the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary classical music. The concert series, based in Los Angeles,...
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    was premiered by soprano Peggy Bonini and pianist Ingolf Dahl at Monday Evening Concerts on October 31, 1966. Robert Craft ranked the song among Stravinsky's...
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    (film) Jean Cocteau Sergei Diaghilev Samuel Dushkin Arthur Lourié Monday Evening Concerts New York City Ballet Pierre Monteux Neoclassicism Petrushka chord...
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    Zipper Hall (category Concert halls in California)
    serving as a performance space for the school, it also is home to Monday Evening Concerts, Southwest Chamber Music, Piano Spheres, VOX Femina Los Angeles...
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    until her death in 1982. After Stravinsky's death, Craft continued to concertize and to write. His 2002 autobiography An Improbable Life details his life...
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  • Percussion Ensemble, a group which made its debut on March 10 with the Monday Evening Concerts. The group performed the world and local premieres of works by...
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    Perm was a local cultural centre, and the Diaghilevs housed a musical evening every second Thursday, Modest Mussorgsky being one of the most frequent...
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    work for a coffee-importing company. In 1895, at age 18, he began taking evening art classes at Le Havre's École des Beaux-Arts, taught by Charles Lhuillier...
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    project. Stravinsky, it seems, had had another vision: "I saw a man in evening dress, with long hair, the musician or poet of the romantic tradition....
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  • continued his support of Stravinsky's work in 1919 by funding a series of concerts of his recent chamber music. These included a suite of five numbers from...
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    live there until 1915, when he returned to Italy to teach and organize concerts, introducing modernist composers such as Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg...
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    the United States, Yekaterina traveled with him to Italy for a series of concerts. While there, she became infected with the flu, which later progressed...
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  • (film) Jean Cocteau Sergei Diaghilev Samuel Dushkin Arthur Lourié Monday Evening Concerts New York City Ballet Pierre Monteux Neoclassicism Petrushka chord...
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    theatrical world. In 1907 he began his theatrical career by presenting five concerts in Paris; in the following year he introduced Mussorgsky's opera Boris...
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    music was questioned, and concerts of contemporary music were looked down upon. The group occasionally attended chamber concerts oriented to modern music...
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    editorship of Diaghilev. As early as 1902, Mir iskusstva included reviews of concerts, operas, and ballets in Russia. The latter were chiefly written by Benois...
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    developing this orchestral work into a full length stage work. Thus, the concert piece became the second part of the ballet Petrushka. The full score was...
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    Hall and Royal Festival Hall. It became famous for its 'Monday Pops' concerts and Ballad Concerts, as the home of the Philharmonic Society and the Christy...
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    first recording was made by Stravinsky himself with the Orchestre des Concerts Straram and the Alexis Vlassov Choir at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées...
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  • an evening of Eastman's works were presented as "A portrait of Julius Eastman" at the long-running modern classical music series, Monday Evening Concerts...
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    via Google Books. Anon., "New Stravinsky Work to Be Featured at First Monday Concert", Los Angeles Times (19 September 1954): D6. "Venice Biennale" (PDF)...
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    Ferneyhough, composer Archived 21 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine". Monday Evening Concerts website (accessed 31 May 2011). Feller 1994, p. 1. Service, Tom...
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