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...dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They are dominated by strange creations of the Slav mind-Baba Yaga (the witch who lives in a little hut that stands on hen's legs), the Sea King (who rises from the depths to enslave human beings), Zhar-ptitsa (the Firebird), Koshchey the Deathless, who is really "little father death." These stories throb with a violence that makes the atrocities of German fairy tales seem tame. If you do not finish by morning, says the Czar curtly, assigning to the hero some impossible task, I will have you shot. A King...
...School in St. Petersburg. Through nine cold and hungry years Danilova struggled to make the corps of Moscow's famed Maryinsky Theater, the tough and thorough proving ground for Imperial School pupils. In her second year at Maryinsky, Alexandra danced the lead in Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird, and from then on she was on her way. In 1924, she left the U.S.S.R. and joined Impresario Diaghilev in Paris. Her first husband was famed Choreographer Georges Balanchine (now married to Vera Zorina); her second an Italian engineer; her third and current one Dancer Kasimir Kokitch...
...Stravinsky remained the greatest ballet composer of modern times, and one of the half-dozen most important symphonic composers of the 20th Century. With audiences nowadays he is popular chiefly for two early ballet scores: Petrouchka (1911) and the orchestral suite from his fairy-tale ballet The Firebird...
Last week Stravinsky, guest-conducting Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony, gave Chicagoans a taste of his own music: The Card Party, The Firebird. The audience loved it, but critics found that, since the Sacre, Composer Stravinsky had come a long way downhill...
Artur Rodzinski (Sot. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Michael Leonidovitch Starokadomsky's Concerto for Orchestra, Glinka's Overture to Russian and Ludmilla, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's Firebird suite...