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...soon-to-be published book called Cellist, excerpted in last week's Saturday Review, Piatigorsky writes a delightfully incisive analysis of wandmanship. The conductor's role, he argues, has grown out of all reasonable proportions. "The focus of attention" he says, "has shifted from prima donna, prima ballerina and the virtuoso to a conductor, who, as a performer, has become all three in one. If he is to be blamed at all, it is not so much for assuming his role, but for demanding and wearing his crown so naturally...
...CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Susan Oliver stars as a Russian ballerina who gets the Casey tour of San Francisco's nightspots...
...have the energy to perform a well-worn role as if it were the choice part -in a first-run play, the ingenuity to plan a guest list with an eye toward a lively, varied pattern (putting banker next to deep-sea diver, Senator between pop artist and prima ballerina), and the social status sufficient to commandeer acceptances all around...
...ballerinas" all that Balanchine is interested in? Tall ones at that. What about the tall men needed to partner them? As for Balanchine's statement that any one of his ballerinas would be a prima ballerina with any other company -I find this highly improbable. Ballerinas as we know them are far more than impersonal technicians. They are highly individual and technically exacting personalities. Mr. Balanchine's girls...
...MIMI PAUL, 21, daughter of a Washington physician and a fashion designer, trained in Washington and abroad before joining the New York City Ballet in 1960. She is cast in the classical mold, a perfectly proportioned ballerina of ravishing grace and serene lyricism. Her expressive arms, arching back, and regal stage presence lend grandeur to a role, as exemplified by her Adagio in Symphony...