Word: juliet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Constant Lambert, 45, British composer, conductor, author; of diabetes; in London. At 20, he wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington...
...effects were removed at the same time. On the bedside desk remained only a calling card (General of the Army Douglas MacArthur), and a large photograph of Miss Davies, which he had always kept beside him. It was inscribed "To W.R. from Marion," with a quotation from Romeo and Juliet...
Meanwhile, Central City doesn't mind being small and candidly experimental. The cost of producing four operas during a four-week season this year (the two one-acters plus Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, Donizetti's Don Pasquale) is budgeted at $110,000. Ticket sales will cover most of this; subscriptions and other activities (including the opera association's hotel and bar profits) should make up the rest. Last year's deficit...
...began as a soloist, and over the years danced her supple way to stardom in Leningrad and at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, where she has been a top-ranking ballerina for six years. She has become famous for her roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet. For her poetic warmth based on flawless technique, critics lucky enough to have seen her dance rank her with Pavlova...
...formula for choosing his out-of-the-way programs is simple, if not 100% successful: "Any piece of music I get a bang out of, I think the public will like too." So far, he has given world premieres of David Diamond's Romeo and Juliet Suite, Norman Dello Joio's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Douglas Moore's Farm Journal (all commissioned by Scherman himself), and revived many a little-known smaller work by Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Stravinsky and Schbnberg. He has no fear of running out of things to play. Digging around in the "terrific...