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...problem is not mismanagement but the fact that the center did not develop quite in the way its founders had in mind. The great artistic companies it houses-the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet-are independent operations that have a cooperative tenant-landlord relationship with the center itself. On its own, the center has sponsored only the repertory theater-an esthetic as well as a financial disaster during most of its history-educational programs and special events such as the summer festivals, which have never shown a profit. Because of the vast fund-raising...
...explains Cooper. The result is frankly freaky. On one platform, a bearded man lies supine, eyes staring, engrossed in the melange of sound effects and music-ranging from Mozart to the Mothers of Invention-that is pouring through his headphones. On another, a girl guest performs a barefoot ballet, delighting in the swirl of the toga around her legs. Off in a corner, a couple engages in mild petting. Attendants pad back and forth, visiting silently with guests or passing out toys: slide projectors, mirrors, kaleidoscopes, helium-filled balloons. A long-haired girl ties four of the balloons...
Harvard never trailed in the game. After a cold first minute, Dover dropped in the first of many ballet-like layups for a 2-0 lead. Nine minutes later, the Crimson led by only three, 20-17. Harrison then inserted Gustafson, the team's sixth man, into the lineup, and the 6-3 letterman sparked a burst which stretched the advantage to 10 points in less than two minutes...
...illustrating the materials of dance while Miss Hahn provided the verbal explanations. They started with the most basic component: movement. Movement for dance, Miss Hahn said, must be defined in its broadest sense. "To limit oneself to certain movements which are supposed to be correct or beautiful [as classical ballet does] is to bar oneself from an infinitely varied world. The richness of dance lies in its ability to draw from the real world...
SHCHEDRIN: THE CARMEN BALLET (Melo-diya/Angel). Rodion Shchedrin, 35, the current Establishment favorite of Russia's younger generation of composers, wrote this ballet for his beautiful wife Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina. Hearing the Toreador Song and the Changing of the Guard freely arranged for strings and 47 percussion instruments is pleasant for the first time, but no more. Shchedrin mistakes brashness for cleverness so often that familiarity with his work breeds boredom...