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...Oriental art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Art Gallery of Taiwan has a standing offer of an assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter ego of Pennsylvania...
...book. By week's end Greenbaum had concluded lucrative agreements with publishers in most European countries. The prices were all the more remarkable since none of the buyers has read the book. It is still in the process of being translated into English by Priscilla Johnson MacMillan at her family's home on Long Island, where she is being assisted by Svetlana. Moreover, the memoir is said to contain few political revelations and not much awareness of Russian politics. The book, as Harper & Row puts it, is a story told "with a rare lyric intensity by a Turgenev...
...stage was bare, the costumes were rehearsal-type togs in grey, white and black. "If you combine sumptuous sets and costumes with Mahler," explains MacMillan, "you get something like jam on jam." A tenor and a mezzo-soprano sang the vocal parts from opposite sides of the proscenium, while onstage dancers representing such allegorical figures as Youth, Beauty and Everyman traced a melange of MacMillan movements that seemed to draw equally on classical, modern and Chinese dance styles...
...MacMillan's best insight into Mahler's mood was in his characterization of the Messenger of Death-a role that was executed with feline power and grace by the company's fastest-rising male dancer, Anthony Dowell, 24. Though always a brooding, ominous figure, the Messenger was also a familiar and alluring one, sometimes standing patiently to the side, sometimes dancing among the other figures or carrying them away. At the end, something beyond his triumph was suggested as the mezzo-soprano sang, "Everywhere and forever the distance looks bright and blue-forever . . . forever...
More to Come. For MacMillan, the son of a Scottish chicken farmer who danced with the Royal Ballet until switching to choreography at 23 (and who now directs the ballet of the Berlin Opera), Song is an achievement that secures him a place in the front rank of younger choreographers. For the Royal Ballet, the performance was the high point of its first two weeks in New York (the start of a four-month U.S. tour). For New York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make...