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...groups of dances, four were traditional, the best being Glazounov's "Raymonda" with the Balanchine choreography. But it seems to me that a contemporary arts festival program should be at least half made up of modern works. The Jean Francaix number was cute and innocuous; but the Festival committee ought to have vetoed "The Duel," in which William Dollar's gifted choreography was wasted on incredibly cheap music by Raffaello de Banfield. I would like to have seen one good modern American work, perhaps a new ballet from a New England composer...
Boccherini-Francaix: Scuola di Ballo (London Philharmonic, Antal Dorati conducting; Columbia: four sides). A sheaf of charming 18th-Century salon pieces collected and orchestrated as a ballet by tricky, French, 27-year-old Modernist Frangaix...