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Monteux was born April 4, 1875, and studied at the Paris Conservatory. In 1911, as conductor of the Diaghilev Russian Ballet he introduced for the first time Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka," "Sacre du Printemps," and "Rossignol," Maurice Ravel's "Daphnis et Chioe," and Claude Debussy's "Jeux...
Sikorsky, like McDonnell, will not tell what design it is working on. Igor Sikorsky points out that convertiplanes have many serious mechanical and aerodynamic problems that have not yet been solved. He believes that only moderate increases in speed and range are likely while the hybrid aircraft still has a whirling rotor to get in the way of the airstream. For many years, Sikorsky thinks, conventional helicopters will hold the ground that they have recently won. Eventually, perhaps, a convertiplane will be perfected that can retract its rotors completely while flying as an airplane. Such a craft, free...
Schumann Concerto (world premiere), set to Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.* Concerto proved to be a showpiece for Ballet Theatre's top stars, Alicia Alonso and Igor Youskevitch, with little more to recommend it. A chorus of dancers flits onstage, poses while the principals leap and gyrate, trips offstage to line up for another round. Agreed the critics: Choreographer Nijinska's mild new ballet helps prove once again the superb talent of Dancers Alonso and Youskevitch...
...Venice last week, a pair of orchestra seats for the premiere of Composer Igor Stravinsky's first full-length opera was fetching as high as $500 on the black market. Operagoers and critics came from all over Europe and the U.S. In spite of all this interest, the first-night reaction to The Rake's Progress was one of happy surprise. The harsh and riotous Stravinsky rhythms of other years (e.g., in The Firebird, The Rite of Spring) were missing. The Rake's Progress sang with old-fashioned melody...
Divorced. By Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, 38: Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, 39, her auto-racing fourth husband; after four years of marriage; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...