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Last week Soviet Dance Master Igor Moiseyev suggested that the only answer is for Russia to develop its own national political dance. "I don't want to squeeze out the West in the field of dance," Moiseyev told the All-Union Seminar of Soviet Ballroom Dancing Teachers in Moscow. "But I do wish to actively express our ideology through it." The dance, Moiseyev says, "should reflect the collectivism of the Soviet way of life in opposition to the individualism of the West, where each couple, even on the dance floor, acts as if it were alone in the whole...
...IGOR KIPNIS: ITALIAN BAROQUE MUSIC FOR HARPSICHORD (Epic). The son of the great Russian bass, Alexander Kipnis, Igor Kipnis is a passionate champion of the harpsichord: he adds to flawless technique a virile attack and a vital conviction that the literature of an obsolete instrument can still be exciting music. Here he plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme...
...worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert E Flat Mass, No. 6, madrigals by Schein, Morley, and Monteverdi, the Gabrielli In Eclesiis, Giuseppe Sarti's Fuga a otto voci reali, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
Drunken Ducks. The problems inherent in helicopters make such prowess the more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary rotor craft in 1483, but even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes...
Bombing Flour Sacks. The craft, so small that it tucks into a garage, so light that it can be lifted to the airfield atop a Thunderbird, was developed by Igor Bensen, 49, a Russian-born engineer. In the 1950s he set up Bensen Aircraft in Raleigh, N.C., to make and market sets of parts, which cost anywhere from $700 without engine to $2,600 for a complete kit that bolts together like an Erector set. To help push his product, Bensen founded the Popular Rotorcraft Association three years ago. Membership has already grown to 4,000 in all 50 states...