Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was plenty of it. At 11 a.m. every day except the Sabbath for three weeks, there was scheduled a chamber music concert; at 2:30, a ballet or a performance by Monologist Emlyn Williams; nearly every evening, a concert by Britain's Royal Philharmonic* or one of five other symphony orchestras, a performance by the Hamburg State Opera, dancing by the New York City, Sadler's Wells Theatre or Marquis de Cuevas ballets, or a play...
...crowd flocked to performances of Der Rosenkavalier, were slower to buy up seats for Hindemith's more modern Mathis der Mahler. They cheered for Eduard van Beinum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra when it played The Rite of Spring and for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's new Reflection, liked Tyrone Guthrie's production of an 18th century ballad opera, The Highland Fair...
...made itself the major outlet for Soviet music in the U.S. Now, when the Philharmonic-Symphony wants to play a Soviet work, it usually rents the score and parts from Leeds; if anybody wants to make a new record of the popular Sabre Dance from Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet, he had better see Leeds; the publisher won a lawsuit over copyright...
...last week: a whole concert given over to his music in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. There were selections from his operas Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Island God, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as part of his ballet Sebastian and his Piano Concerto. By the end of the evening, Menotti had proved again that he is one of the most melodious composers of the day and a natural for a summer evening outdoors. Thomas Schippers. 22, led the Menotti program with perception and skill...
London had just got its first look at the New York City Ballet's celebrated production The Cage (TIME, June 25, 1951), in which the characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...