Word: firebirds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sold $30,000 worth, five times more than in 1975. Roughly 10% of all households in Oregon have bought wood-burning stoves in just the past four years. Nationwide, sales of wood-fueled furnaces, boilers, hot-water heaters and kitchen ranges are also glowing. At the six-month-old Firebird store in Santa Fe, Owners Gene and Sharon Tison have already sold more than 100 stoves, from the $320 Fisher "Babybear" to the $730 Mors...
...Chiaroscuro," and Respighi again (minus "Festa Romane"). Here's your chance to hear the Respighi--interesting works evoking Roman splendor; the concerts are Friday at 2, Saturday at 8:30, and Tuesday at 7:30. The BU Symphony concert features the exciting Piano Concerto No. 1 by Brahms and "Firebird Suite" by Stravinsky. It's Friday...
...American Ballet Theater has gone back to the first Firebird for its latest, opulent new production. The impulse can scarcely be questioned: few companies have the resources to provide the public with a chance to step back in the history of movement. The sets are handsome mock-ups of those designed by Nathalie Gontcharova for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In Natalia Makarova the A.B.T. has a ballerina who understands an older tradition and makes it breathe...
There are some rewards for those willing to enter Fokine's world of benign magic. The firebird has a taste for the golden apples that grow in an enchanted grove. She is caught in the act of munching one (Makarova actually does a few steps with a gilded ball in her teeth) by the prince, who, like any right-minded nobleman in Russian ballet, is out hunting. In exchange for her freedom, she gives him a feather that will bring her and her supernatural powers to his side in time of trouble. She knows there will be an emergency soon...
...next item on the program at the New York opening provided some immediate comment on The Firebird. It was Grand Pas Classique, a showpiece that mocks technical virtuosity while flaunting it. Cynthia Gregory and Fernando Bujones were in dazzling form, and the crowd cheered them on as if it too had been let out of a haunted forest. In ballet, at least, there are apparently limits to museumship...