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...company's director, did the same, casting her out of the corps in his production of Raymonda. Now she is the darling of choreographers on the international scene: Rudi van Dantzig, William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs. Says Nureyev: ''She has extraordinary physical attributes, long legs, a long neck. She has musicality. And what is most important, she glows on stage.'' All accurate. But he adds, ''At 21, she already has nerves of steel.'' Not quite so, according to Guillem. Before a performance she suffers from le trac, or stage fright: ''No more legs. I go limp, and panic inside.'' It does...
...joined Bix Beiderbecke's band. From that humble dockside audition grew the career of one of the century's most influential jazzmen and most enduring icons. It was Benny who set the teenagers of the 1930s stomping at the Savoy and sing, sing, singing with his soaring, exhilarating swing music; it was Benny who broke the color line in music by integrating his band with the likes of Lionel Hampton and Teddy Wilson (''I'm selling music, not prejudice,'' he said); it was Benny who brought jazz to Carnegie Hall, confirming its status as an art form. Long before...
...Depression got under way. In 1933, he met John Hammond, a descendant of Commodore Vanderbilt's, who backed up his love for jazz with a considerable amount of cash. A year later, with underwriting from Hammond, Goodman formed his first band, which opened at Billy Rose's Music Hall in New York City. It was too intense and driving for a public conditioned to syrupy hotel orchestras. But for all its kick-up-your- heels abandon, Goodman's group was as highly disciplined as Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony. The eight- and 16-bar call-and-response choruses, sung...
...Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a British band dedicated to new-wave rock music and what the group's bassist, Tony James, calls designer violence. The group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will...
Talk about dynasties: the Yankees, Canadiens and Celtics have nothing on Ludwig van Beethoven. Since the mid-19th century, Beethoven has been the dominant figure in concert music. Brahms was haunted by him, Bruckner worshiped him, and Wagner was inspired by him. Pianists, string quartets and symphony orchestras perform his music incessantly, and audiences never tire of it. In the nearly 160 years since his death, Beethoven has fended off all contenders to World's Greatest Composer and shows no signs of losing his title. The latest crop of the champ's compact disks: Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Polonaise...