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...Boulez sought composition instruction after giving Paris' traditionalist Conservatoire the back of his hand ("The composition professors were imbeciles"). From Webern, Boulez derived and refined Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique to its uttermost austerity, and from Messiaen he absorbed an interest in Oriental cultures. Today Old Master Igor Stravinsky, 76, admits that Boulez has influenced even him, regards Le Marteau as the "most [attractive work] from a composer of the younger generation." He adds simply: "I like to listen to Boulez." So will the more adventurous and patient among U.S. record buyers...
...meritorious service in developing Soviet art," the U.S.S.R. awarded the Order of Lenin to wiry Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, director of the whirling, high-jumping folk-dance troupe that wowed U.S. audiences on its coast-to-coast tour last spring...
...group, created by Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely...
...plot of Carnival is probably the best one script-writers B. Laskin and V. Polvakov ever turned in. Ogurtsov (Igor Ilyinsky) is boss man at the House of Culture. The youngsters there are planning to throw a bread-and-circus type New Year's Eve Party, but Ogurtsov wants culture: lecturers, string quartets, and the rest. Students conspire. Ogurtsov is defeated and everybody has a great time. It's wonderful stuff...
...lack of imagination and heaviness of its scattered newer works. Back home, Russian choreographers petitioned the Ministry of Culture for a freer hand, and surprisingly, the Ministry agreed that "the many-sided variety of Soviet life is insufficiently reflected in ballet." Spartacus, music by Aram Khachaturian and choreography by Igor Moiseyev, scarcely intends to hold the mirror up to Soviet life, but it opens the window on a gaudy, gamy world rarely dreamed of by Moscow audiences...