Word: erick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Martha Graham, 46, deadpan high priestess of the modern dance (and radio's Miss Hush of 1947); and Erick Hawkins, 39, her dancing partner; both for the first time; in Santa Fe, N.Mex...
Louis Horst conducted the orchestra. The sets were designed by Isamn Noguchi. Miss Graham appeared in both works, with May O'Donnell, Erick Hawkins, and Mark Hyder as her fellow principals...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fred erick Laurence Field, 74, commander of the battleship King George V at the Battle of Jutland, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from 1930 to 1933; in York, England...
...stark black-draped stage relieved only by the skeletal framework of a house. What was happening in this newest Graham dance-drama (to Aaron Copland's alternately gay and poignant Pulitzer prize score) was comprehensible even to the bored businessman: a bride (Graham) and her groom (Erick Hawkins) built their house in the clearing of a Pennsylvania forest; they had a baby; they entertained a band of Shakers (who shook away their sins in a frenzied religious ceremony...
Most notable feature of the school: a special class for conductors from which the Director hopes to turn out five top-rank maestros in five years. Long convinced that a conductor should handle himself as featly as his orchestra, Koussevitzky hired Manhattan Ballet Master Erick Hawkins, partner of famed U. S. Dancer Martha Graham, to teach his pupils podium gestures. Soon Teacher Hawkins had the pupil conductors pirouetting and posturing, trying to become as expressive as dancers. Some of them took it seriously, some were embarrassed. Grumbled one: "Makes a fellow feel selfconscious...