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...millions of Philanthropist and sometime Dancer Lucia Chase, Founding Director Richard Pleasant was able to put together an opening season with a roster that read like a Who's Who of the dance world. Michel Fokine, Anton Dolin and Antony Tudor were among the choreographers; Dolin, Dimitri Romanoff, Adolph Bolm and Nina Stroganova were among the principal dancers. This illustrious list of European dance talent was studded with some new American names like Jerome Robbins and Nora Kaye, both members of the first-year corps de ballet, and Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Eugene Loring...
...thank you for your marvelous article [April 27], and let's make a date for ten years from now to see which Tchaikovsky is on television. Incidentally you forgot the one in giving cost of film; it was closer to $12 million than $2,000,000. DIMITRI TIOMKIN...
...really understands such musical attractions is Composer Dimitri Tiomkin. He was born near St. Petersburg and still, at 70, sounds like the quintessential Russian from Central Casting. "Ah! I am so wahnderful to see you," goes his standard greeting. Tiomkin is a true child of Hollywood. In 39 years there, he has written 125 film scores and won four Oscars. Versatile above all, Tiomkin has composed musical scores ranging from the lonely harmonica of High Noon to what sounded like a 4,000-piece ensemble in Giant...
...intensely did Tchaikovsky throw himself into composition that when he died at the age of 53 he had produced a total of 325 hours of music. For The Lonely Heart, Composer-Conductor André Previn drew heavily upon that reserve-and it is pure Tchaikovsky. Dimitri used what he calls "Tchaikovsky's basic architecture"-with embellishments by Tiomkin. Still, the score is essentially Tchaikovsky-so much so that Dimitri, with unwonted modesty, lists himself in the credits as "adapter," not "composer...
...machine tools, and mammoth red "Padi Harvesting Combines"-which are wheat combines converted for use in rice paddies. They also stocked shelves of books by Marx, Lenin and Engels but removed them after a government reminder that most are banned in Malaysia. "We're here to sell," said Dimitri V. Bekleshov, the gray-suited vice president of Vneshtorgreklama, the export agency's ad company. "Our tractors are better than the American Caterpillars." The advertising was also hardsell, and rich in unintended humor. Sample Aeroflot slogan: "And you've heard of Russian hospitality (some people never quite recover...