(Encyclopedia) Markova, Dame AliciaMarkova, Dame Aliciamärkōˈvä [key], 1910–2004, English ballerina. Her original name was Lilian Alicia Marks. Markova joined Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1924 and,…
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(Encyclopedia) madrigal, name for two different forms of Italian music, one related to the poetic madrigal in the 14th cent., the other the most common form of secular vocal music in the 16th cent.…
Newton, Helmut
(Encyclopedia) Newton, Helmut,
1920-2004, German-American photographer, b. Berlin, Germany, as Helmut
Neustädter. Newton began taking pictures at age…
(Encyclopedia) Antonioni, MichelangeloAntonioni, Michelangelomëkālänˈjālō äntōnyôˈnē [key], 1912–2007, Italian film director and scriptwriter, b. Ferrara, Italy. In the 1940s he made documentaries…
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