Word: mazurkas
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...those who live through it, war creates a world antithetical to organized society or ordinary fiction. It is appropriate, then that Camilo Jose Cela's 1983 book Mazurka for Two Dead Men, only recently translated into English, is not an immediately recognizable or understandable novel...
With reasonable security, he has worked on building his repertory selectively. This fall's new works, Excursions, a lusty frontier-style piece, and Mazurka, to Chopin's music, are his most popular premieres since his 1969 ballroom ballet, Intermezzo. Mazurka is technically ferocious. But, says Feld, "with its angular line and hot and cold jazz rhythms, the ballet is like caviar...
...dancers taking on his flights of ferocity. "I believe in good dancers, better dancers and great dancers," he says. Like Balanchine, he wants a starless troupe, but whether he likes it or not, Christine Sarry easily stands out. As the mercurial waif of Excursions or the buoyant ballerina of Mazurka, she is fleet-spirited and light-legged...
...knowing that Chopin calls for rubato tend to throw it on as if with a trowel, distorting the basic metrical life of the music and making the melodies sound maudlin and oversentimental. I find it's not a bad idea, while playing practically anything of Chopin, to have the Mazurka, the most intricate of Polish forms, in the back of one's mind. Incidentally, the third movement of the concerto is referred to in one of Chopin's letters as a 'potpourri of Polish airs,' and mazurka rhythms are more or less everywhere (although I hear Spanish music, quite interestingly...
TIME is even gaining behind the Iron Curtain, although the figures aren't such as to send our circulation people swinging into a mazurka. Until the 1960s, circulation there was limited to 322; today it is 1,161. While most copies still go to government officials and foreign embassies, TIME is now sold on selected newsstands in Poland and Yugoslavia...