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...launched by a pianist from Texas, was consolidated last week by a baritone from The Bronx. As Van Cliburn flew home to a hero's welcome in Manhattan (see PEOPLE), the Metropolitan Opera's Old Pro Leonard Warren, 47, breezed into Moscow and gave audiences at the Bolshoi Theater a chance to hear the resonant, mahogany-hued voice and the sweeping dramatic power that have made him one of grand opera's top baritones...
...first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow's mosque, Nasser drank in the flattery with all the appetite for acclaim of the Middle East's biggest balcony-lover...
...Bolshoi and Tchaikovsky theaters are only a stout walk from each other in Moscow, but at first glance their respective products seem to be versts apart. The Bolshoi's stage glitters with the familiar, stylized formulations of the classic ballet; the Tchaikovsky's shivers to the explosive hop-stomp-and-run of the folk dance. Most Westerners have glimpsed some reflections of the Russian classical style; 'few have sampled the exuberant dance language of Russia's full folklore. Next week the U.S. will get its first good look at that language when the Moiseyev Dance Company...
...group, created by Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely...
...told, the Moiseyev Dancers will visit eleven cities across the U.S. and Canada. If their experience in London and Paris is any indication, their Russian hoedowns will please the crowds, whet their appetite for the Bolshoi, which is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. in spring...