Petrushka in Full Score readers can savor the tales

readers can savor the tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators

The Hills were unrivaled connoisseurs with a family tradition of violin-making

joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains

its peculiarly Egyptian aspects

Petrushka in Full Score readers can savor the talesStravinsky's score for the ballet Petrushka, commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes, was first performed in Paris in 1911 and was an immediate sensation with the public and the critics. It followed by a year the great success of his score for The Firebird, also produced by the Ballets Russes, and it confirmed Stravinsky's reputation as the most gifted of the younger generation of Russian composers. The ballet had begun in Stravinsky's mind