Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bechet: La Nuit Est Une Sorciere (Ballet...
Jazzman Sidney Bechet soloes in his own Ballet, which has been a success in France. The story concerns a somnambulist who kills his family while he is asleep, only to be led to his own death by a slave. The music at first alternates between late romantic and jazz styles, then combines the two. The jazz is excellent, while the classical sections are rather dramatic. When combined, Bechet has an interesting musical admixture that fits the weird story...
...Reborn by the class of '51, the frolic, headed by Al Capp and Victor Borge, seemed to assume a pace less torrid than that of the liberal pre-war years. But in 1951 Sally Rand bounced back to Memorial Hall to reveal more facts. "I am a ballet dancer," she purred. Miss Rand lectured '54 on the threat of Communism and then retreated amid a hail of pennies and ice cream bricks. Later when interviewed in her Scollay Square dressing room, she told the CRIMSON "I got no personal gain from the speech. I just...
Impresario Hurok, 64, should know. He has been in the business of promoting, projecting and presenting ballet, opera, drama, symphonic orchestras and concert artists all over the world for more than 40 years. This season, for example, he presented in the U.S. the Comédie-Française, the Sadlers Wells Ballet, the Santa Cecilia Choir of Rome, Antonio and his Spanish Ballet Company, the Scots Guards Band, the Kabuki Dancers, the Vienna Choir Boys. Last week, hewing to his principle of giving the public the best, he presented his second TV show of the season.* It was easily...
...first: the Sadlers Wells Ballet doing Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty, seen by an estimated 37 million viewers...