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...program began with Roberto Gerhard's Alegrias (a suite from the ballet Divertissement Flamencoco). It is tempting to dismiss this piece as one of the best warm-up exercises since Czerny, but that would not be entirely fair. Gerhard, a native of Catalonia, has written an incoherent suite but good ballet music, it contains some pleasant touches, as in the use of the piano. Since, however, the HRO lacks a corps de ballet, one wonders what Alegrias was doing on the program...
They do about seven sketches in an evening, never saying a word, mixing ballet, pantomime and animated cartoonery. In any given sketch, two or three actors will be visible, and two or three phantoms will be on the stage with them, making brightly colored inanimate objects move about as if by magic...
Sunday, March 1 DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Second part of a visit to Moscow, including children's ballet classes, the Obratsov puppets, Popov the clown, and performing animals...
When George died in 1937, he left notebooks containing perhaps as many as 100 melodies, and Ira has finally decided to release some of them. Fourteen will go to Choreographer George Balanchine for possible use as the score of a ballet, and Ira has already put words to three others. The titles: All the Livelong Day, Sophia and I'm a Poached...
...brush-name of Pierre Brassau. Last week, art critics of the other Goteborg papers reviewed the show. Wrote one: "Pierre Brassau paints with powerful strokes, but also with clear determination. His brush strokes twist with furious fastidiousness. Pierre is an artist who performs with the delicacy of a ballet dancer." One of the oils sold for $90. But not every monkey-hoax story ends with all the humans fooled. Wrote one of the critics, as the perceptive punch line of a harsh review: "Only an ape could have done this...