Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart of the Ballet (Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra; Victor, 10 sides). Just in time for balletomanes who want a musical refresher before Britain's Sadler's Wells Company arrives in the U.S. next week. Includes excerpts from the music for Giselle, Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker, etc., all well-Stokowskied. Recording: good...
Last week, to celebrate its tenth birthday, Lucia Chase's Ballet Theatre put its name back up on the Manhattan marquee where it first appeared. When the curtain went up in Rockefeller Center's huge (3,000 seats) Center Theatre, fans saw Les Sylphides, which opened Ballet Theatre's first program. No one in the audience needed opera glasses to see how far Ballet Theatre had come in polish and precision in the interval. But the fans reserved their biggest applause for American ballets such as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend-just the kind...
That night the police combed the Left Bank looking for associates' of the four they had arrested. They should have looked in the Cáfe L'Oasis, near the Pont Louis-Philippe, where, for years, two clubs have met: "Les Insulaires," a group of small merchants who liked to read their poems to each other, and the "Orphéon Cydo-Artiste-Cercle," a group dedicated to playing the flute while riding bicycles. The two groups had got alone fine for years until Mourre" deserted his religious studies and joined the Insulaires. After that meetings grew...
...Tickets, Please!" is the first consistently entertaining revue on the boards in some time. When the Hartmans and their cohorts do a take-off on the Roller Derby, burlesque Les Ballets de Paris, or parody a bumbling magician and his act, the antics are something you're bound to enjoy...
There he took his time learning to paint, sopping up the brilliant colors of the French countryside, studying the revolutionary techniques of les fauves (the wild beasts), including Matisse, Braque and Dufy, who were then setting France...