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...spectacle than an unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet (the famous fish dives were omitted from the pas de deux in Act III), the Kirov Sleeping Beauty was by general consensus more graceful than any ever seen on an English stage. Again the company avoided the driving finishes that are the Bolshoi's hallmark, but in this case, the Kirov impressionist technique seemed far better tailored to the material...
...Furtseva's latest smash hit abroad is Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, which last week wound up a ten-day stand in Paris. A star of the show was Rudolf Nureev, 23, whom Paris critics hailed for his spectacular leaps in the famous Bluebird pas de deux in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. But word had spread through the dance company that Nureev intended to defect, and when the dancers arrived at Le Bourget Airport for departure to London, Nureev, sullen and tense, was accompanied by two Russian strong-arm men, euphemistically described later as "unofficial" members...
...Monday through Friday. Each Wednesday, musical compositions related to art will be heard. This week: Bartok, Quartet no. 3-4; Beethoven, Septet; Mozart, Piano concertos no. 19 and 23; Handel, six concerti grossi; and Mozart, Divertimento no. 3. Next week: Clementi, Piano sonatas; Bartok Two Portraits for Orchestra and Deux Images (Wednesday); Beethoven, Quartets no. 1-2; and Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra...
...power. But the personal relationship went better than anyone had expected. Thanks in large part to the help of Jackie Kennedy at her prettiest, Kennedy charmed the old soldier into unprecedented, flattering toasts and warm gestures of friendship. The young aristocrat of Massachusetts and the old aristocrat of Colombeyles-Deux-Eglises achieved a rapport that would help when France and the U.S. try to resolve the issues that divide them...
...Garde Républicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd?including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than a million out"?although reporters guessed that 500,000 was a safer head count...