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Russia on Display

Music, Art and the Stage in the Diaghilev Enterprise

1 Feb 2008
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Russian impresario Sergey Diaghilev began his career as a student of musical composition before switching to art criticism. He later united his two great passions, music and the visual arts, in the Saisons Russes in Paris. Dr Marina Frolova-Walker, Clare College, Cambridge, examines how Diaghilev brought together the most forward-looking Russian and French composers and artists to create spectacular ballet productions that were so powerful he changed the course of European artistic development.

In the Reynolds Room; 6.30-7.30pm

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Joan Miró, The Birth of Day 1 (Naissance du jour 1), 1964. Oil on canvas, 146 x 113.5 cm. Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul. Photo © Galerie Maeght.
© Succession Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008.

 

The Antioch Chalice, Byzantine, from Syria, possibly Kaper Koraon or Antioch, first half of the sixth century. Silver cup set in footed silver-gilt shell, Height 19. 7 cm. Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Cloisters Collection, 1950 (50.4). Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art