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Outside Russia, most ballet buffs agree that the Bolshoi dance company is the Soviet's best. But in London last week, audiences had a rare chance to consider a rival. The Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, which somewhat obscurely traces its descent to the establishment of the Imperial Academy of Dancing in St. Petersburg in 1738, came to town on its first Western tour and gave a generous demonstration of what it thinks the classical ballet is all about...
...official duties during her pregnancy, Britain's Princess Margaret, 30, has no intention of undergoing a solitary pre-confinement. Back in London after at tending the Yorkshire wedding of her cousin, the Duke of Kent, she accompanied Husband Antony Armstrong-Jones to the opening of the Leningrad Kirov Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming...
Just four days after his nimble-footed defection from Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company at Le Bourget Airport in Paris (TIME, June 23), Dancer Rudolf Nureev, 23, got a job with France's prestigious Marquis de Cuevas troupe. Starting salary of capitalism's newest convert: $6,000 a month...
Madame Furtseva's latest smash hit abroad is Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company, which last week wound up a ten-day stand in Paris. A star of the show was Rudolf Nureev, 23, whom Paris critics hailed for his spectacular leaps in the famous Bluebird pas de deux in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. But word had spread through the dance company that Nureev intended to defect, and when the dancers arrived at Le Bourget Airport for departure to London, Nureev, sullen and tense, was accompanied by two Russian strong-arm men, euphemistically described later as "unofficial...
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling; Artia). When it received its premiere in 1897 in St. Petersburg, the First Symphony was so violently unpopular that Composer-Critic César Cui nominated it for first prize at "a Conservatory in Hell." Rediscovered in 1945, it proves no more shocking to modern ears than Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. A romantic but vigorous work, it gives little hint of Rachmaninoff's later rhapsodies. The Leningrad Philharmonic is properly muscular...