Word: minuets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...created for him by Leningrad's Leonid Jacobson in 1969. The subject of this seven-minute solo is Auguste Vestris, a famous 18th century dancer and mime. In a powdered wig and white satin tunic, Baryshnikov went through a kaleidoscope of quicksilver impressions - an old man dancing a minuet, a woman praying, a girl flirting. It was funny. It was sad. Then it was funny again. It was acting of the highest order...
...signature ("by a lady") on Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Austen, this Other Lady suggests, might have chosen to follow Charlotte Heywood, a shrewd country girl on a visit to Sanditon. Charlotte falls in love with a fellow from London named Sidney Parker and, after a minuet of polite rivalries, surreptitious coach journeys and misdirected letters, happily snares and is snared by him. In other words, most of the complexity, satire and social implications suggested by the Sanditon fragment (which ends on page 77 of this volume) might have melted away, leaving little more than...
...instinct for drama animate Ozawa's shaping of this Berlioz semiopera. Although it overflows with melody, Berlioz's musical transformation of Goethe is generally known only by three orchestral pieces- the exuberant Rákdóczy March, the Dance of the Sylphs and the Minuet of the Will o' the Wisp. With out diminishing the lushness of the com poser's symphonic texture, Ozawa's crisp tempi add clarity and continuity to the 20-scene, four-part work. The oval sounds of Soprano Edith Mathis brush a fresh bloom on Marguerite's Romance...
...hyperboles cast off like arpeggios. Without missing a joke, Bawtree plays for something subtler-a humor that permits, above all, modulations into the lyrical, his favorite key. In the finely staged entrances and exits, the elegant circlings of wits and their ladies, here is theater as sophisticated as a minuet by Mozart...
Next Plane. Extradition is, by theory and by treaty, a judicial and diplomatic minuet, in which all the refinements are respected. In practice, as the narcotics cases suggest, it is often otherwise. The formula used to be that the expelling nation put the fugitive forcefully aboard "the next direct ship." In 1930 New York Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond was returned to the U.S. from Germany in just that manner. Today the formula is "the next plane out," and sometimes that happens even when there is no extradition treaty. Afghanistan has none with the U.S. but when Timothy Leary...