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THEA MUSGRAVE, 47, has written chamber music, ballet and opera. "Music is a human art, not a sexual one," she says. "Sex is no more important than eye color." When Britain's Musgrave talks about "space music," she is not referring to synthetic sci-fi sounds but to compositions in which the players are directed to move about the concert hall...
...still No. 1 with the jeté set, but at 37, Ballet Star Rudolf Nureyev may be feeling a bit creaky of knee. Friends report that he has considered an acting career, and the aging dancer has been showing up at a London studio to cut his first record. Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, read the title role of Stravinsky's L 'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) in lightly accented English. He then described his trepidation at leaving his silent art even temporarily. "I usually don't have the courage...
...tune of the bicentennial, the orchestra will open with a performance of Appalachian Spring, a suite from the Pulitzer prize-winning ballet by prominent American composer Aaron Copland. The ballet is a charming work which captures all of the joyful and apprehensive emotions of a young pioneer farmer and his bride-to-be in the Pennsylvania hills during the early part of the last century. The flavor of the mountain folk tradition is so pungent that one is nearly drawn to begin foot-stomping and hand-clapping...
...when Kubacki talks about art or ballet or his music history course, his dull blue eyes widen. He says that he is interested in just about everything. And, when asked about his future, an odd smile spans his sculptured face. "Right now there's nothing I want to be when I grow up." The Kubacki chuckle. "I don't even living one day at a time, enjoying everything and everyone he can. His teammates will tell you that Kubacki is "loose" in a huddle. It is the looseness that comes, perhaps, from living with the uncertainty of whether he will...
Died. John Kriza, 56, charter member and longtime (1940-66) star of the world-renowned American Ballet Theatre; in an apparently accidental drowning; near Naples, Florida...