Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago when angular, handsome British Sculptress-Painter Barbara Hepworth agreed to look on at a surgical operation, she was afraid she might faint. Instead she found herself "fascinated by the complete perfection of the movements, more rigid and precise than those of a ballet . . . the remarkable tension, lighting and grouping...
Warshaw points to the American "cultural presentation" as an example. Most of the youth delegations turned out programs ranging from tumbling to ballet; these various exhibitions ran every night. Some were on what Warshaw calls a "professional level," the Soviet delegation putting on a show complete with soloists from Moscow's Bolshoi theater. The Mongolian Republic brought dances, acrobatics, and a collection of stringed instruments...
...other networks, only CBS even tried special competition. In the hour-long spot opposite Berle, CBS was trying an all-Negro show called Uptown Jubilee, a succession of variety acts enlivened by Maxine Sullivan and a visually exciting ballet troupe...
...some of the balletomanes who packed Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week for the opening of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the wiry, sandy-haired little conductor who took the podium for the second ballet looked vaguely familiar. When he began to conduct, it was with some of the flapping firebird motions of Igor Stravinsky. But it was not Igor. It was his son, Soulima Stravinsky (TIME, July 26, 1948), who was making his U.S. debut as a conductor and composer...
...together a score from his favorite Scarlatti sonatas for a revised version of Choreographer Antonia Cobos' middling success of 1944 and 1946, The Mute Wife. Even with Soulima's new-music, the new version was just middling. He had had less than two hours to rehearse the ballet orchestra, a part pickup outfit seldom two rungs better than a good firemen's band. And about the most charitable word the critics could find for the Ballet Russe's ragged performances was "drab." Yet, it was evidence that the son of a famous father, after only...