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...subtitle, Kitri's Wedding, more accurately describes both the Russian and the Baryshnikov versions. It is based on an episode in the Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...
...gutsy, bold dancer with almost palpable physical courage. She flings herself into the role of Kitri. Her foot hits the back of her head when she jumps (and she leaps the night away). Her attacks are almost stabbing. Her fan flips constantly - unless she is using it to poke Basil. She so clearly relishes keeping him in line that one wonders if there isn't a bit of a shrew in his future...
...ballet should belong to Kitri- and eventually it will as it enters the A.B.T. repertory and other men take Basil's part. Right now Baryshnikov's dynamism puts things off balance, much as Marlon Brando's Broadway perfo mance in A Streetcar Named Desire obscured the fact that the play was really about Blanche DuBois. Baryshnikov is the Figaro of Spanish barbers. He flirts recklessly, he fumes, he pouts. He does a wonderful bit with two mugs, leaping and drinking out of both at once. He has a hilarious, hollow-eyed mad scene in which he stabs...
...Under fire, Hot Bottle Bill had stood his ground like a good 'un, manfully ensuring that the Parliamentary attacks were invariably answered by one of his junior colleagues, Mr. Basil Forbes (otherwise known as Errol the Peril, on account of his unpredictable imprudence...
...Longy School hosts a half-dozen interesting concerts over the next three weeks. The Longy Wind Ensemble, conducted by Basil Chapman, plays works by Mozart and Beethoven on Friday, January 13. The School is located at 1 Follen St., near Radcliffe Quad. Call 876-0956 for details. Among the other Longy concerts is a Special Faculty Concert on Monday, January 16, featuring sonatas of Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. "Music for Viennese Fortepiano," on Friday, January 20, includes Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 281 and Beethoven's Sonata in C sharp minor Op. 27, no. 2. In a more modern vein...