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...EVERY BALLET THEATRE has its ups and downs, but it isn't expected in a national company like the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). The troupe's performance Tuesday night at the Wang Center for the performing Arts was very inconsistent beginning with a disappointingly, syrupy piece and then finishing with a brilliant, upbeat dance...
...candy-store owner, Rock graduated from Harvard Business School before beginning his career on Wall Street. Childless, he lives in San Francisco with his second wife, Attorney Toni Rembe, in a home overlooking the bay. He frequently attends and contributes heavily to San Francisco's opera and ballet companies and the city's Museum of Modern Art. His private art collection includes works by the modernists Robert Motherwell and Hans Hofmann. Rock likes to entertain at dinner parties, which attract an eclectic mixture of guests such as Opera Impresario Kurt Herbert Adler and Rolling Stone magazine Editor...
Swan Lake, Minnesota (ARTS). Swan maidens in tutus riding bales of hay up a conveyor belt? This poetic, disarmingly simple adaptation of the classic ballet inventively mixed a country-and-western twang with Tchaikovskian lyricism...
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Two Portraits (Deutsche Grammophon). Bartók's bloodcurdling ballet gets an elemental reading from Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony...
...first danced The Nutcracker during his Manhattan debut with the New York City Ballet in 1967. "Now I'm older and wiser," says Peter Martins, 37, who is retiring as a performer to serve full time as the company's co-ballet-master-in-chief with Jerome Robbins. Last week he made his emotional final New York appearance as the cavalier in the company's 1,000th performance of the Tchaikovsky classic. An added sprinkle of confected delight was supplied for the farewell by the premiere of Robbins, 65, in the nondancing role of the toymaker Drosselmeyer...