Ten years after its premiere, the composer made a piano arrangement of "three movements" from this work, including a "Russian Dance" and a piece set i
Ten years after its premiere, the composer made a piano arrangement of "three movements" from this work, including a "Russian Dance" and a piece set in the title character's room.  The fourth scene features the "Dance of the Bear and the Peasant" as well as the "Dance of the Coachmen and Grooms."  Scene one is set at the Shrovetide Fair, where a showman plays a flute to three characters.  In scene three, the villain begins worshipping a cocoanut after he is unable to crack it with his scimitar.  That villain, the Blackamoor, murders the title character because of their rivalry over the Ballerina, and in the end the title character's ghost appears above the theater.  FTP, name this 1911 ballet by Igor Stravinsky about a puppet.
Ten years after its premiere, the composer made a piano arrangement of "three movements" from this work, including a "Russian Dance" and a piece set in the title character's room.  
Petrushka