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    Bronislava Nijinska and Anton Dolin as the tennis champion and the swimming champion in Le Train Bleu.

    Credit: Lebrecht Music & Arts

    Anton Dolin as Le Beau Gosse and Bronislava Nizhinska as the Tennis Champion in Le Train Bleu, a ballet created by Sergey Diaghilev and choreographed by Nizhinska, inspired by the famed French luxury express train of the same name. The ballet, first performed on 20 June 1924, was a collaboration between preeminent creative artists of the era, with a story by Jean Cocteau, music by Darius Milhaud, costumes by Coco Chanel, a set by Henri Laurens, and a curtain designed by Pablo Picasso. This fall update to Grove Music Online features refreshed biographies of several visual and literary artists whose work had a powerful impact on the music world.

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