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...opening work of the program, Hindemith's Nobilissima Visione, left absolutely no taste at all: it was just another work from the Hindemith grab-bag, competently performed. The suite contains five selections from an unsuccessful ballet which Hindemith began in 1919 on a commission from Diaghilev. The ballet lay unfinished after the death of Diaghilev until Hindemith completed it with Massine in 1937; the ballet failed a year later. The three movements of the present are all typified by the concluding Passacaglia, which consists of nineteen variations on a six-measure theme. Here Hindemith blurs the distinction between economy...
...Ordered the Paris Opera to cancel a performance by Rudolf Nureyev, a Russian ballet dancer who defected to the West in 1961. Though Nureyev has already danced in Paris, London and New York, the French government plainly felt that his appearance in Paris now would be an affront to Nikita Khrushchev...
...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmila Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...
...Just as he may portray a tale of rape and murder that has been repeated century after century by the Kabuki players of Japan, as in The Nun and the Skull, so he is drawn to the bull rings, where year after year man and beast have performed their ballet with death. Then he might do a painting of a little girl listening to "the sound of flowers," or of two praying nuns, one of whom seeks, and one of whom has heard, the voice of God. Violent or tender, these are supremely lonely acts, and they are of every...
...Lovers of Teruel. One of those ballet movies, but this time it's for surreal, and Ludmila Tcherina, though she wobbles on her toes, gives the picture body...