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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A searching look at ballet through the person of the New York City Ballet Company's soloist, Edward Villella. The camera studies him onstage performing two George Balanchine ballets, offstage choreographing a new pas de deux, and at home with his wife, Ballerina Janet Greschler...
...honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto unpublished correspondence with John Maynard Keynes, a contemporary of his at Cambridge. The letters consist mostly of outpourings of enthusiasm for comely young men, for whose favors Strachey and Keynes strenuously competed. "It was a kind of intricate ballet of the affections," writes Rees, "in which Keynes, ruthless, serpentine and slightly Mephistophelean, invariably comes off best...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
...Mixed in with such practical counsel as how to wear tails and what to do about loud brass (ignore them or they will play louder), Swarowsky subjects his charges to a withering barrage of criticism. "Stop boxing," he grumbles, or "Stop moving your fanny; I'm not teaching ballet." Even a compliment may be prefaced with "That was the worst thing I have seen in my whole life." Such treatment, says Swarowsky, "strengthens their character and teaches them how to gain the upper hand of the orchestra...
...that he is 64, Choreographer George Balanchine's appearances as a dancer are rare and treasured, and he puckishly refuses to give out word of them in advance. The result, as New York Times Critic Clive Barnes put it, is that "picking which ballet he will do has become one of the greatest spectator sports since strip poker." Last week the great ballet master materialized for the first time this season-in the title role of his ballet Don Quixote-fluttering the audience like a stone thrown among pigeons. Sighed Barnes: "A legitimate thrill such as hearing Mozart play...