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Earthy Anecdotes: The Premiere of The Rite of Spring

Earthy Anecdotes
On 29 May 1913, The Rite of Spring, the ballet and orchestral work composed by Igor Stravinsky, premiered at the newly-opened Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. With choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and stage and costume design by Nicholas Roerich, the ballet was part of the 1913 season for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Jeux, the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy,...

The Masquerades of Fyodor Sologub

Literature
In 1899, as Fyodor Sologub progressed in the teaching profession while continuing to elaborate his literary career, Sologub was appointed principal of the Andreevskoe municipal school in Saint Petersburg. With the position came an apartment on Vasilievsky Island, which Sologub shared with his sister Olga. In the late 1890s and at the beginning of the 1900s, the art world of Petersburg saw...

Earthy Anecdotes: Zola’s House at Médan by Paul Cézanne

Earthy Anecdotes
In Banks of the Marne by the French artist Paul Cézanne, a solitary chateau peeks out from the dense foliage with its tower and spire, whitewashed walls, and wooden balcony. Several years earlier the painter had composed a similar canvas in the form of Zola's House at Médan, which currently resides with the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. Otherwise known as...