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...Department of Agriculture documentaries. The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937). Thomson borrowed hymns ("the doxology") and cowboy songs (The Streets of Laredo) and added his own folk-style tunes in The Plow. These two scores were Aaron Copland's inspiration for several famous ballet scores, including Appalachian Spring...
...Evening of Classical Ballet at the Loeb Ex, April...
...long last, some really fine student ballet dancers at Harvard have come out of the studio into the limelight. Onstage at the Ex this weekend, Joanne Hochberg, Lois Rosenberg and Francine Figie prove, in three short and beautifully executed pieces, that ballet is no drawing-room accomplishment. This pared-down movement breaks through any porcelain figurines of cliche. There are no imposed theatrics in the performance; costumes are kept to a bare minimum; lights illuminate, not ornament...
...dancing is spectacle enough. The three pieces, each the essence of a different style of ballet, are all choreographed with imagination and danced with most impressive technique. The second work, a series of Tchaikovsky Divertissements, though a virtuoso exercise, lacks the excitement of the other two pieces: "Songs," choreographed by Carol Jordans of the Cambridge School of Ballet to Mendelsshon's "Songs Without Words," and "Pas de Trois," choreographed by Hochberg to the allegro movement of Mozart's "Clarinet Quintet in A." In Jordan's work, the trio of dancers evokes Mendelssohn's past. Rosenberg's sprite, Hochberg's strength...
...child in Los Angeles, Hoffman studied to be a concert pianist but dropped the idea fast when he discovered the fun of acting classes. It is nearly a decade since he became an overnight star in The Graduate; he now gets $750,000 a picture. He and his wife, Ballet Dancer Anne Byrne, live in New York City. Says he: "If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes." He is extravagantly proud of his wife, who stopped dancing to have two children, but who is now "making a comeback second only to Muhammad Ali." He concludes...