Word: balletic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tinge of regret, of his four living children (a fifth died at birth)--"as a father I have probably spend less time with my children than any man not sentenced to life imprisonment." And no amount of reserve can hide his delight in his second wife, British ex-ballet-dancer Diana Gould: "she has been a constant inspiration, a stimulus, an expression of animated beauty in my life and in our children's lives...
Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat. (The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor Deutsche Grammophon). Like much ballet music heard outside the theater, The Three-Cornered Hat calls for some imaginative listening. Written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, it is enormously theatrical, punctuated with expectant pauses from the first fanfare to the last triumphant Jota. Ozawa leads a bright, brassy performance of the Fandango, Seguidillas and Farucca. Teresa Berganza fans will only wish that she had more to sing...
...dominant personality trait is the willingness to gamble. Ballerina Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...
...dance program began with performances by Heinz Poll's Ohio Ballet and the Eliot Feld Ballet of New York City. At festival's end a daylong celebration of the music of Scriabin will be topped off by premières of new balletic works by George Balanchine, Sir Frederick Ashton and Glen Tetley...
...that you can concentrate on the game you put some psych up music on the stereo--most guys play heavy metal types like Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin but personally I'm fond of the Nutcracker Suite, in fact before one game I danced a makeshift ballet to Mr. Tchaichovsky's classic in my underwear but that's another story--and imagine that you're annihilating your next day's opponent. It's a mystical experience...