Word: mazurka
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...regularity. He claims he did plenty of practising in his youth to last him all his life. Mr. Hofmann's favorite avocation is inventing mechanical gadgets. Sonata Op. 53 (Waldstein) Beethoven Kreisleriana (Six movements) Schumann Polonaise in E flat minor Nocturne in B major, Op 9, No. 3 Mazurka in B flat minor Ballade in F minor Chopin Orientale, Op. 10, No. 2 Stojowski Moment Musical in F sharp minor, Op. 94, No. 3 Schubert-Godowsky Elude in C sharp minor, Op 2 Scriabin Kaleidoscope, Op. 40, No. 4 Hofmann
...last year "married" the Baltic and the Black Seas in an identical ceremony. At Hoboken, Polish oldsters presented the Batory with bread (for good luck) and salt (for love). Polish-American moppets romped through traditional Polish rites, brought up spring branches, rye, oats, wheat, fruit and vegetables, danced the mazurka and krakowiak and sang The Green Grove...
...Madison Square Garden dimmed. Across a bright lattice of wavering spotlights glided a tiny girl in an abbreviated costume of red & gold, a ribbon fluttering saucily in her hair. In the centre of the ice, her sturdy little legs suddenly twinkled into the first steps of a mazurka. Then she swung into a Lutz jump, a Jackson-Haynes spin, glided backward the length of the rink in a fadeaway stop. To lay observers, this brief turn was not remarkable. For experts it was an exercise in sheer genius, the climax of the evening. Cheering wildly, they demanded two encores...
...Flint, Conductor Shoot, False Love Morley Folk Songs Crudele Irene Italian The Pedlar Russian Bonnie Dundee Scottish 2. Pyorrhean Sorority LeGrand L. Thurber Gur Hayes Francis F. Cary William Atrens Von Schrader "The Argentines and the Greeks" "The Flying Trapeze" 3. Violin Selections Malcolm Holmes Ave Maria Schubert Mazurka in G Major Wieneawski 4. Subway Scene in Pantemime with Apologies George R. Shaw, 2d 5. Selections Harvard Glee Club Choruses from the Gondoliers Sullivan Will Kirby E. W. Fischer Accompanists Football Songs Fair Harvard...
...fought comically for each other's trade and decked out half the dancers in richly colored furbelows. Les Presages, done to Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, was more obscure but in it Irina Baronova and David Lichine did a memorable passion dance. Le Beau Danube had an amazing mazurka done by Leonide Massine and Tatiana Riabouchinska (see cut}. Their footwork was incredibly swift and sure. But all the leading dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That was the way of the old Russian Ballet which Serge Diaghilev brought...