Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcoming arms of Paris in 1925. There in 1929 he painted the austere countenance and long, strong hands of Sergei Rachmaninoff-possibly the best canvas in last week's show. Portraiture is Chaliapin's favored ground, but he tackles many things with equal zest, from laughing ballet dancers to glowing landscapes and stark religious works. Among his most recent canvases: a shockingly dramatic Crucifixion, as seen from the foot of the Cross, with knees twisted in pain and a face cloaked in shadow...
...Ballet Theater: Music and stories from the great ballets...
...Ballet Theater: Music and stories from great ballets...
...Gluck-Alceste Overture (D); Bach-Sonata #3 in E (C); Tchaikowsky-Swan Lake Ballet (V); Hayden Sonata #24 (MSLP); Gershwin-Concerto...
Moscow last week was soberly ablaze with old-school ties from Eton (black and light blue). Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sported one at the Bolshoi Theater performance of the ballet Romeo and Juliet. So did one of the principal Foreign Office types he brought along. The third was worn by Guy Burgess, infamous for his 1951 flight from his Foreign Office job to Russia with Fellow Diplomat Donald MacLean...