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...which 21 were world premières, set to Stravinsky's music-was also a celebration of the greatest single creative partnership in the history of ballet. It had its start when the two Russian émigrés were brought together in 1925 by the great Impresario Serge Diaghilev. It continued for four decades, during which Balanchine and Stravinsky created two dozen ballets from the romantic Tchaikovsky-esque The Fairy's Kiss to the stark, quasi-dodecaphonic "IBM-ballet," Agon...
...plays ye shall know me," says Joseph Papp. He has never written a play but he has given life to many, and as an innovative impresario he exerts enormous influence. Each of the works produced in the Downtown Manhattan beehive called the Public Theater bears the Papp stamp. "That's my job," he says. "Oh, yes, that's my job! I'm very good at saving plays, you know." Some would add, at saving the American stage. He himself observes with characteristic modesty: "I am the most important producer on Broadway, off-Broadway...
When he talks of future artistic empires, Papp sometimes sounds like Jay Gould, the robber baron, sometimes like Serge Diaghilev, the great impresario of ballet. When he discusses TV, however, he sounds more like the prophet Isaiah, with a vision of glory in his eye. "Eventually," he says, talking about his specials, "it will be essential to do 50 a year, 50 a month. Just by the sheer doing of it-and having it come directly out of live theater-we'll be setting up a whole cultural movement...
Marriage of Figaro was well received at Prague in 1786. The impresario Bondini hoped to profit again and commissioned Mozart and Daponte for the next season; the fruit of the collaboration was Don Giovanni. As can be said of almost any piece, the opera does contain some of Mozart's finest music. The ensembles are particularly subtle for their delicate musical characterizations...
...Kissinger's chop means "Henry Carrier Pigeon.") Kissinger has been the American impresario for the China trip. But in Peking this week, he stays discreetly in the background physically, saving himself for long sessions with the President. He has a remarkable facility for deferring to the President in any public setting. The word is that Secretary of State William Rogers is handling the detailed negotiations for people-to-people contacts that will come out of the visit, while the President and Kissinger direct overall policy. It is something of a slight for Rogers, who has not even been taken...