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...Large ballet, musical and opera companies--which used to bypass Boston--are planning performances in the newly renovated Metropolitan Center...
...past few years where only a transplanted New Yorker would remain unimpressed. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1971, bringing yet more unnecessary acres of red carpeting to the city but also presenting thousands of nights of first-class opera, theater and ballet. The National Symphony is now led by Mstislav Rostropovich and is magnificent. There are other great institutions: the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian museums, the National Theater, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - all intelligently run, all national showpieces. Nor is the feeling of these places monumental...
From the world of dance came New York City Ballet's Peter Martins and Heather Watts and American Ballet The ater's Cynthia Gregory, who fluttered exquisitely through the Fledermaus solo. Placido Domingo exalted Granada. Sherrill Milnes, who spends much of his time playing villains, sang a poetic, almost prayerful Maria. Flutist James Galway. having piped himself on with a penny whistle, dared to play the almost unbearably poignant Danny Boy and, through sheer musicianship, let the beauty, not the tears, flow. Not all the celebrants had to perform. Onstage by the evening's end were many...
...feud between Durkin and Rudman goes back to 1974, when, in a dispute over the results of the election that first sent Durkin to the Senate, Attorney General Rudman, a member of the state ballet commission, ruled against him. Durkin won the rematch with little trouble. In 1976 Gerald R. Ford wanted to appoint Rudman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, but the Senate never considered the nomination. New Hampshire Republicans remain convinced that Durkin, despite his repeated denials, prevented the nomination from proceeding...
...estimated cost of more than $250,000 a week) by James M. Nederlander, head of his family's large theatrical organization. Present plans call for a U.S. tour in the spring and a possible European junket after that. Makarova wanted to be artistic director of the American Ballet Theater, her main performing base since she defected from the Soviet Union ten years ago, but lost that post to fellow Emigré Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her new venture not only gives her control over a company but allows her to choose roles that she might otherwise not get. She also wants...