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Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne Suite (London Philharmonic, Efrem Kurtz conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). Sparkling anthology of some of Composer Offen bach's best Second Empire hits. Performance: excellent. Recording: good...
...step was recognized: the Anzio Amble, a shuffling, crouching gait while hugging the walls on the lee side of German artillery bursts...
...there are touches, tender beyond the reach of invention. A boy who has withdrawn from the fight stands by a tree, exhausted, pinching the bridge of his nose. A young man holds gauze to his shot mouth and retires from the battle with precisely the hunched, half-stumbling gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise...
...Diaghilev alumnus, specialist in grotesque character dancing, creator of some 40 successful ballets, now with the Ballet Theatre. A decade ago Massine churned an esthetic storm with his ambitious, often impenetrably symbolic ballets. Since then he has reverted to the bumptious, exuberant, satirical style of his most admired works (Gaité Parisienne, Three-Cornered Hat, La Boutique Fantasque, Mademoiselle Angot...
Their pace seemed slow, the gait of the runty ponies between the shafts of their carts dispirited. But at day's end, when a runway had been completed, a building put up or a force-landed plane fished bodily from a swamp, Americans saw the result and never lost the wonder of China's art in the use of sheer man power...