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...mists. His reading of La Mer shapes all the surge and ebb of the score into crystalline lines and proportions. He heightens the texture of L'apres-midi d'un faune by building a cunning pattern of contrasts in mood and dynamics. In the ballet score Jeux, Boulez delineates the surprising variety of rhythmic pulses to be found within Debussy's floating tempos...
...Jewels, by George Balanchine, is danced by the New York City Ballet...
Music Hall-Boston Ballet presents The Nutcracker. 268 Tremont St., near Stuart...
Salvaged Season. The proposed three-year contract calls for increasing salaries to an annual $19,500 minimum for orchestra musicians, $13,400 for chorus and $11,180 for ballet dancers. The package would eventually cost the Met $3,000,000 a year. It would also make the orchestra and chorus the highest-paid in America-though they work longer hours than any comparable group...
Armand decided early to bombard his brood with the self-improvement lessons that most children congenitally abhor. Not Raquel. She devoured them. She was particularly enthralled by the ballet lessons that Armand thought would give her poise. What they did was give her ideas, which she now sentimentalizes. "I saw The Red Shoes ten times," she recalls. "I decided then that I wanted to be a ballerina." She has plenty of aptitude for the dance, according to her former teacher, Irene Clark, but hardly the proper spirit. "There was no humility in her approach to art," remembers Miss Clark...