Word: nabokov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather than execution. The theme was the construction of the two railroads, the Union and the Central Pacific, which Leland Stanford's ill-aimed blow symbolically joined together. But both music and choreography-breath and flesh of any ballet-were the work of Russians: the music of Nicholas Nabokov, 31-year-old composer of Alsace and Paris; the choreography of Leonide Massine, 36-year-old master of the present Russian ballet. Only the libretto by Archibald MacLeish, the stage sets by Albert Johnson (The Band Wagon, As Thousands Cheer) and the costumes by Irene Sharaff (Eva Le Gallienne...
...concert for Thursday is to include the following selections: Handel, Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra in B minor, No. 12: Nabokov, Symphony Lyrique: and Tschaikowsky, Symphony, No. 4 in F minor, Opus...