tzigane

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Tzigane, a word that refers to Romani people, is now considered derogatory.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Listen to Frances Andrade play Ravel's Tzigane Link to this audio In 1988 she met Levine Andrade, a Mumbai-born violinist and viola player, at a concert at St John's Smith Square in London.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013

Unquestionably, the star of the Homage was Suzanne Farrell, who was the focus of three ballets: Robbins' Concerto, Jacques d'Amboise's Alborada del Gracioso and Balanchine's Tzigane.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Tzigane is one of my favorite ballets, because it was the first one that Balanchine choreographed for me after I returned to the company in 1974."

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max

With regard to Archduke Joseph, the above-mentioned "Gypsy Archduke," there is no doubt that without him the outer world would still have been left in ignorance of the incalculably rich mine of Tzigane music.

From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Fontenoy, Mme. la Marquise de