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American citizen. He wins a gold medal from the Philadelphia exposition for his painting Hispania, and designs costumes for two productions of Mikhail Mordkin's Russian Ballet. The Metropolitan Opera declines to accept his costumes and set designs for a production of
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ballet The Four Seasons, staged by the pupils of the Imperial School of Choreography at their annual review on March 26, is apparently the first collaborative project of Anisfeld and Fokine. Anisfeld executes Bakst's designs for
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