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Barrett and Mrs. Reagan quickly found they had something in common: a son trying to make it in professional ballet. "Nancy Reagan became a frequent and helpful source," Barrett says. "Though she is sensitive to criticism, she is also able to take negative comments in stride, more or less, provided that the observations are factual. When I reported in 1980 that she tended to carry a grudge, she laughingly complained, then joked that she would remember that sentence for only a few years. She has a sense of humor as well as a sense of politics...
RAMEAU: PYGMALION (Erato). Conductor Nicholas McGegan's graceful performance of the gentle opera-ballet...
...unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of Winsor McCay and the reassuring images of bread and bed; Outside Over There (1981), the story of an airborne young heroine, had the enchanting quality of classical ballet. After that, Sendak's interests turned to the stage, and he designed the sets and costumes for Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as operatic adaptations of his own works. It is the theater that informs Sendak's illustrations for E.T.A. Hoffmann...
Nutcracker is the story of twelve year old Marie (Clara in the ballet) the merry daughter of a wealthy German noble family. On Christmas eve Marie and her brother Fritz prepare to enter the parlor of their home where piles of gifts await them. They most eagerly anticipate the annual gift of their clockmaker Godfather Drosselmeir. Drosselmeir's elaborate present almost spoils the mood of the occasion as Fritz complains bitterly when he finds that he cannot enter the castle. Marie's eye however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little...
...reader. Sometimes this is appreciated. Yet with a book like the Nutcracker, Illustrations are a dangerous business. Maurice Sendak is one of the finest creators of books for children. Many of the drawings accompanying the Nutcracker are the same drawings that functioned as the set for the recent ballet. Sendak also created more pictures for the book...