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French Choreographer Maurice Béjart had a devil of a time casting his ballet rendition of Goethe's Faust. Who could play the aging hero, a scholar struggling to recapture his youth by bargaining with Mephistopheles? "There aren't many 50-year-old male dancers left," explains Béjart, who happens to be exactly 50. So, even though he hadn't danced onstage in nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut...
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never tries to overcome the music's essential dance quality with virtuoso orchestral tricks. A delightful album, and by far the best Swan Lake on the market. William Bender
Marquette University won the NCAA basketball title last night over North Carolina, and you'll have to pardon me if I don't get some of the details straight. You see it's kinda hard to watch a basketball game when your ballet-crazy brother keeps switching the channel to check out what's happening with the Harlem Dance Company special...
...course in great operas (she complained that he played the records too loud). After two months in the White House, he has made three visits to Kennedy Center -for a Washington Opera Society production of Madame Butterfly, Hal Hoibrook's Mark Twain Tonight! and a New York City Ballet Company performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Variations on "America" is "a blue-sky, apple-pie kind of ballet. If it misses the intensity of some of Feld's longer works, it also lacks their some times disturbing undertones. A circus of bravura set pieces, it may well join Le Corsaire, Don Quixote and similar pas de deux as staples of gala pro grams. Variations is bound to tempt other virtuoso pairs. There are two reasons, however, why it may not look quite the same: Christine Sarry and Mikhail Baryshnikov...