Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ballet Theater returned to Boston last Monday night after an absence of two years to let the public see a week of good dancing again. Unlike two years ago, when this same company played to a near-empty theater, the Opera House on opening night was filled to capacity...
Murder & Belief. A slow, meticulous worker in the early Renaissance technique of egg tempera on gesso panels, Cadmus builds his pictures up with thousands of tiny brush strokes, finds time to complete only three or four a year. He had interspersed his Sins with cleverly composed little pictures of ballet dancers practicing and handsome boys having fun on beaches. There was also a photographically sharp scene of mob violence, Herrin Massacre, which described in bloody detail the murder of a gang of strikebreakers by coal miners at Herrin, Ill. in 1922. Like many of Cadmus' best works, Herrin...
Prokofiev: Cinderella (the Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Warwick Braithwaite conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). The score for the ballet now being performed in Russia and by England's Sadler's Wells (TIME, Nov. 14), and what Russian Expatriate Igor Stravinsky calls "Soviet music-bah!" Completely undistinguished, it sounds more often like so-so Soviet Composer Khachaturian than great Composer Prokofiev. Performance and recording: good...
Stravinsky: Orpheus (the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 8 sides, 45 r.p.m.). The tight, dry, subdued but dramatic music for the Stravinsky-Balanchine ballet performed with great success at Manhattan's City Center last year (TIME, May 10, 1948). Performance and recording: excellent...
...speech at the supper given in her honor after a command performance in Copenhagen. After Helpmann had tactfully told the guests that "Miss Fonteyn is too moved to speak," she stood up and talked for six minutes. She loves to jitterbug. Helpmann says that after dancing with her in ballet for 14 years, he only really got to know her after jitterbugging with her until dawn one time last year...