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Mostly it was nonpolitical fun, with innumerable flea-market stalls, 350 restaurant-cafes, a huge motorcycle rally, ice follies, fireworks, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Soviet Navy Chorus. The festival also featured what may well have been the year's best pop concert, with appearances by The Soft Machine and Singer Joan Baez. Shoppers could look over everything from hams, furniture, suits and house trailers to computers from IBM, Burroughs and Control Data. Computers? Certainly. Communists control 1,100 of France's 38,000 municipalities and, like mayors of more conservative stripe, they are rapidly turning...
Died. Harald Lander, 66, Scandinavian ballet master and choreographer who helped mold the Royal Danish Ballet into one of the world's greatest troupes; of leukemia; in Copenhagen. During his 19 years as ballet master, the former dancer choreographed such highly praised productions as La Valse, Spring, and his modern masterwork, Etudes. In 1951 scandal ended the Danish phase of his career; he was accused of taking liberties with ballerinas and forced to resign. Instead of retiring, he went to France and was soon appointed ballet master at the Paris Opera...
...exiled to Salonika with a few of his favorites; 370 concubines, old or second-rate by the Sultan's standards, and 127 eunuchs were set free. Now the Turkish Ministry of Culture is planning to make Topkapi Palace the focus of a "cultural revolution" featuring concerts, poetry recitals, ballet and re-enactments by the National Theater of the tragedy of Ibrahim...
...proper showcase for the performing arts. This was the lack that the Kennedy Center's planners set out to remedy. When they began their work in the mid-'50s they were thinking of a national cultural center that would present all the traditional forms of opera, theater, ballet, orchestral performance and film. The grand-scale, centralized package they had in mind was a challenging problem for an architect. How does one design a "monumental" building that visually responds to the immense emotional and conceptual range of the performing arts? In the 19th century, this was notably solved...
Died. Yuri F. Faier, 81, chief conductor of the Bolshoi Ballet Orchestra from 1924 to 1963; in Moscow. While they showered Faier with bravos from Manhattan to Moscow, audiences were largely unaware that a congenital affliction had left the conductor almost totally blind, able to see only dim silhouettes. After joining the Bolshoi as a violinist, Faier memorized dozens of scores and choreographies until he knew just where each dancer should be at any point in any ballet. The portly maestro with perfect pitch was able to coordinate the orchestra precisely with the onstage movements of the dancers...