Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Critics chided the Metropolitan Opera's Herbert Graf for unimaginative staging but cheered the singers and especially the rediscovered score. Almost as successful was the evening's other revival: Strauss's seldom-done ballet. Josepkslegende, which he wrote in 1914 on commission from Diaghilev. In the last six summers, by emphasizing the works of Home Town Boy Strauss. Munich's opera festival has risen to rank with many of Europe's best, attracts opera fans en route from Salzburg to Bayreuth. And in the bout between Munich's conservatives and their nose-thumbing native...
...coed out shopping for her fall regalia last week. What drives the girls mad-and may well make the boys a lot madder-is this fall's latest fashion: a glove-tight, foot-to-waist cross between Ebenezer's red flannel long Johns and Fonteyn's ballet costume. The biggest thing since Bermuda shorts, the new tights emphasize that slender, leggy look everyone strives for. Children wear them for play, college girls in class under skirt or kilt; working girls and young matrons buy them for lounging costumes, fortyish ladies don them for exercising. They even have...
Finally moving on to Brussels via Paris, the ballet troupers scoured Parisian shops for all the shoes, Pancake Make-Up, eye shadow, nets, Kleenex, false hair, powder puffs and bobby pins they could carry. Wardrobe Master Leslie Copeland flew to London to buy white shirts for the men. Upon his arrival in Brussels, well-heeled Director Lucia Chase and company members cut off the incongruous pockets. The U.S. embassy in London scissored red tape to arrange immediate funds for air-freighting costumes, put the Rambert Giselle score in a Brussels-bound diplomatic pouch. In Brussels itself, one especially vital consignment...
...before the Brussels opening, Music Director Samuel Krachmalnick set about rehearsing a pickup orchestra of phlegmatic Flemings. A Brussels milliner, working from a photograph, in six hours ran up helmets for The Combat. At the scheduled time, in the U.S. Pavilion theater, the curtain rose on the Ballet Theatre. The first work on the bill was Theme and Variations, but variations predominated: girls in Sylphides tutus and men in tights, which had just arrived from New York, leaped and twirled against a backdrop from Gala Performance...
...appear as Greek goddesses, sprayed their hair silver, washed it out during the ten-minute intermission, returned in the next number as winsome peasant maids. One painted her slippers white for Paean, minutes later pink for Giselle. There was little evidence to suggest to the audience that the ballet had risen from ashes. Wrote La Libre Belgique: "The dancers of this excellent company provided us with a spectacle in which ballet [became] poetic language...