Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio stations (and eventually The Voice of America and leading European stations). Program No. 1 will star an orchestra already familiar to U.S. record fans: the famed Vienna Philharmonic. The others will carry U.S. listeners on a 1,400-mile journey across less familiar territory-from the Danish Radio Symphony to the State Symphony of Greece...
...most important sign to date that European Socialists are about to give up the old game of pulling Uncle Sam's goatee. Danish, Swedish and Dutch delegates to the conference congratulated Phillips on his speech. At home, many British Laborites also agreed with him. Said one: "[At] our present stage in history, when everyone must determine between the fundamentals of democracy and dictatorship, we've got to drop the comparatively shallow discriminations that once seemed important." Outside the Labor Party, Britons were not so pleased. Said one Tory: "It's no use Labor putting on the bridal...
Back in the days when Jean Georges Noverre, one of the grandfathers of ballet, was writing his famous Lettres sur la Danse (1760), Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet was just ten years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so well that their company soon became one of the best in Europe. Last week Denmark's 200-year-old Royal Ballet, which now bows only to England's crack Sadler's Wells Company in Western Europe, was putting on a special 14-night summer festival. Danish balletomanes...
Even Sadler's Wells has no one to touch handsome, Danish-born First Solo Dancer Borge Ralov, 42 (who changed his name from Petersen to avoid confusion with another dancer). In an art in which the reverse is usually true, the Danish male dancers are thoroughly masculine. Says Ballet Master-Choreographer Harold Lander: "When I see a boy going that way, I tell him to give it up or give up dancing. Ballet needs feminine women and masculine...
...Solo Dancer Ralov in particular could thank him for one of his successes. When Ralov first danced the role of Gennaro in Auguste Bournonville's Napoli, Frederik, then Crown Prince, came backstage and asked him if he would like some pointers. Frederik had seen Hans Beck, a famed Danish dancer, the role years before, and had spent hours in a practice room with Ralov, coaching him on what he had seen...