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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against the odds, he clawed his way to Leningrad and the Kirov school at age 17 -- very late to start serious classical training. His sheer will and magnetism won the day. Perhaps because he began by playing catch-up, Nureyev was not considered a natural dancer. He was blessed with a high leap and, in addition to athletic vigor, the noble, generous moves that are nearly impossible to teach. But he lacked, say, the sublime coordination of Mikhail Baryshnikov, and he had to work hard for his technique; a former colleague recalls that he was always looking for someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Who Transformed Their Worlds: Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...artists satisfy our nostalgia for that lost phoenix of Modernist desire, an art that was both experimental and politically effective. To this day, one can't look at the Constructivist designs for agitprop events -- the red panels of Natan Altman's bold transformation of the huge Palace Square in Leningrad for the first birthday of the October Revolution, or the steel-truss tribune designed by Lissitzky to carry Lenin forward like a high diver over the heads of a crowd -- without a feeling of exhilaration: this, not the bureaucratic and murderous reality of institutional Marxism, is what it was meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Russia's Great Flowering | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

...Leningrad-born Anatol Ugorski has emerged from the eclipse of his motherland's shadow. He has signed his first recording with Deutsche Grammophon, recording works by Beethoven (Diabelli Variations), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition), and Stravinsky (Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the U.S.S.R. | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

Ugorski, born in 1942, spent all of his life until 1990 in Leningrad, where he was assigned the piano as his instrument by the examining board of the music school for children. Ugorski wonders even today whether it was only by chance that he came into contact with the instrument. His talent was imminent, but his creativity with regard to technique drew heavy criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the U.S.S.R. | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

When Heinrich Neuhaus the great piano teacher of Gilels and Richter, heard Ugorski play at the age of 17 he said, "Not talented as a pupil, does not absorb influences. But a gifted pianist." Ugorski worked his way up to an appointment as a professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. He worked there until 1990, when he finally emigrated to Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the U.S.S.R. | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

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