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...novel does come fitfully to life, usually in some transitional scene where the author is forced to view the society in which her New Yorkers still move. A wedding is done well; so is a smoothed-over gaffe at a dinner party and an old ballerina with her beauty in ruins but her vanity intact. The suspicion grows during the slow passage through this glum volume that it is not rightfully a psychological novel, but a strayed social one. It moves repeatedly in that direction, and always the author drags it back. That is her privilege, of course. Still...
Divorced. By George Balanchine, 65 master choreographer and artistic director of the New York City Ballet Company for 20 years: Tanaquil LeClerq, 39, onetime prima ballerina who, after becoming Balanchine's fifth wife, was forced to give up dancing forever when she contracted polio in Copenhagen in 1956; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
SHCHEDRIN: THE CARMEN BALLET (Melo-diya/Angel). Rodion Shchedrin, 35, the current Establishment favorite of Russia's younger generation of composers, wrote this ballet for his beautiful wife Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina. Hearing the Toreador Song and the Changing of the Guard freely arranged for strings and 47 percussion instruments is pleasant for the first time, but no more. Shchedrin mistakes brashness for cleverness so often that familiarity with his work breeds boredom...
...Blair's Swan Lake, which had its Ballet Theater premiere in 1967. After a year of living with the production, the company is able to bring to a performance some thing far more rare than mechanical perfection: aristocratic authority. And Ballet Theater fortunately possesses at least one ballerina with the promise of becoming an outstanding swan queen: 21-year-old Cynthia Gregory...
SHOWTIME (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Rudolf Nureyev and Vienna State Opera Ballerina Ulli Wehrer dance that old balletic warhorse, the pas de deux from Don Quixote. Also on the bill: Tanya, an elephant who dances and plays the harmonica with equal grace...