{"podcast":{"title":"Classical For Everyone","slug":"classical-for-everyone-7209001","podcast_index_feed_id":7209001,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/567485/rss","website_url":"https://classicalforeveryone.net","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/0/5/9/3059e749a6b3525c16c3140a3186d450/1400x1400_72_copy.jpg","author":"Peter Cudlipp","episode_count":87,"summary":"Five hundred years of incredible music. No expertise is necessary. All you need are ears. If you've ever been even slightly curious about classical music then this is the podcast for you.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T18:17:48.010656+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001"},"episode":{"title":"The Ballets Russes… Firebirds, Fauns and Fighting","slug":"the-ballets-russes-firebirds-fauns-and-fighting","published_at":"2026-02-19T19:38:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001/the-ballets-russes-firebirds-fauns-and-fighting","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001","url":"https://341d0332-89c6-4d02-8970-d32b9a531d5b.libsyn.com/the-ballets-russes-firebirds-fauns-and-fighting","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/341d0332-89c6-4d02-8970-d32b9a531d5b/CFEP_159_Ballets_Russes.mp3?dest-id=4908285","summary":"Much of the 20 th century orchestral music that today dominates concert halls and recording studios started as music for ballets. And the best of it started with the Ballets Russes company; which was largely the creation of one man… the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev. It is hard to think of another instance where one man, who was not a composer, has had such an outsize influence on what has come down to us as great and lasting music. And I'm going to play you a selection of that music… from Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Manuel de Falla and Sergei Prokofiev… as well as giving you a little of the Diaghilev and Ballets Russes story.","meta_description":"Much of the 20 th century orchestral music that today dominates concert halls and recording studios started as music for ballets. And the best of it start…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4932,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/classical-for-everyone-7209001/episodes/the-ballets-russes-firebirds-fauns-and-fighting/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/classical-for-everyone-7209001/the-ballets-russes-firebirds-fauns-and-fighting.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}