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Despite its failings. Noah made a moving TV debut. It added up to one more success for the team that created such ballets as Petrouchka, Firebird, Orpheus and Agon. Says Prima Ballerina Melissa Hayden, who watched with admiration: "I do not know what Balanchine and Stravinsky will do next, what new medium they will conquer, and what new experiences they will give; I am only sure that when they do. I want to be there and be a part...
...suggested that nowadays the old revolutionary talks better about music (in interviews with Protege Conductor Robert Craft) than he composes. Although, in the U.S. at least, Stravinsky remains the most widely played living composer, the works that turn up most often in the concert halls are early masterpieces like Firebird and Petronchka, with their gorgeous colors, their richly varied rhythms and brilliant orchestrations...
...concert in Madrid, the lights went out during a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird; the orchestra played on in the dark from memory. When a flight to Luxembourg was canceled, the orchestra arrived by bus 15 minutes before concert time and with no luggage. The musicians played in sweaters and slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted...
Along with Anderson, the general run of "contemporary" (post-1900) composers come off remarkably well in the B.M.I. survey; they wrote almost two-thirds of the works played by U.S. orchestras last season. Serge Prokofiev was the most-played contemporary, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite was the most-played contemporary composition. But that still left Serge, Igor and Leroy Anderson several long leagues behind the perennial alltime favorite: Ludwig van Beethoven. Music lovers could take some comfort from the fact that last season Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was played just 40.3 times as often as Anderson...
...expect me to see an oblong pond." On another humorously humorless occasion, the poet deputed a vampire to plague one of his enemies. The reckless, insane logic of the spirit world sometimes pursued Yeats far beyond the seance rooms. Years after his long, frustrated courtship of the hauntingly lovely firebird of the Irish Troubles, Maud Gonne, had ended with her marriage to another man, the fortyish Yeats showed up in her home on the coast of France and promptly proposed marriage to Maud Gonne's eleven-year-old daughter, a scene that might bring pause even to the imagination...