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DIED. Jens Otto Krag, 63, twice Prime Minister of Denmark, whose personal crusade for European unity culminated in his country's vote to join the European Community in 1972; of a heart attack; in Jutland, Denmark. An economist and a Social Democrat, Krag became a Cabinet minister at 33, Prime Minister at 47. After Danes voted to join the Common Market, he shocked them by abruptly resigning. Said he: "The time I have used talking to newsmen I will now use for reading...
...frowned on by the puritanical Soviet commissars. The figure was readily identifiable as his wife Nina. Another Glazunov show was closed in 1964 because of his unsparing depiction of ordinary Soviet life. After two years in deep disfavor, Glazunov began a comeback when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that the artist do his portrait. In 1968 Glazunov finished a portrait of India's Indira Gandhi that the lady greatly admired. Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev reportedly felt much the same way about a portrait of himself that Glazunov, unbidden, executed for Brezhnev's 70th birthday last...
AFTER MINAHAN, the star of the show is the music. The second act, which features more of Cohan's hits, is especially impressive, with one finger-snapping number fading right into another, like fourth of July fireworks. Under the direction of Karen Krag, the show orchestra handles the music with patriotic zest, only rarely drowning out the performers on stage. Cohan's score is also enhanced in this production by consistently fine choreography, which heightens the excitement of sequences like Minahan's tap-dancing rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and elaborately mounted production numbers like the "Over There...
Princess Ida opens April 17 Long hours of rehearsals, marking scores, teaching the orchestra its cues will culminate in eight performances and become only memories. Karen Krag is determined that for her and her cast those memories will be sweet ones.CrimsonJoseph A. Kovace...
Loren, one of the accompanists and Gratto's husband, told Krag after the first chorus rehearsal that she has "good conducting technique and no self-confidence." I ask if she thinks that is true. She pauses and then answers. "I'm getting it." She says she has to learn how to sell and regrets she can't whistle like so and puts two fingers in her mouth. "Right now I have to steel myself to get through a rehearsal. I'm not that good with a whole group of people I don't know. With Fiorello I could wait until...