Word: ballets
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...ignored the protesters, I ignored their signs, I paid only slight attention to the t.v. cameras filming the crowd. I was late for the ballet...
...opening night for the Moiseyev Ballet, the U.S.S.R.'s premiere troupe of folk dancers. The ballet was conducting the first major Soviet performance tour of America in a long time. I was excited to see it. I have always wanted to see a Cossack dance...
...gorgeous Sunday in June, Simon Geller slouches in an easy chair in his darkened apartment, with the windows closed and a chuck steak in the oven, listening to himself on the radio. At the moment, he is broadcasting the ballet Sylvia, by Leo Delibes, on the station he periodically identifies as "WVCA, 104.9 megahertz, in Gloucester, Massachusetts...
Professor of English and American Literature and Language Helen H. Vendler reminisced about when she was a child and her family did not have a television or records. But she would go to the ballet and the opera, about which she would form judgements...
Professor of Fine Arts Neil Levine, an expert in the history of modern architecture, also recalled his youth. "I always thought you had to make an effort to open a book or go to a ballet," he said. "Looking at buildings takes almost no effort...