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...Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
Among the supporting cast, Oscar Homolko is wonderfully ingratiating as the Community loss who brings Potts to Moscow. The most that can be said for Nadia Gray is that she manages to look well even in the grim garb of the Kremlin...
This week the company began its tour with a four-week visit in Manhattan's packed Metropolitan Opera House. Famed Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, fully recovered from a six months' bout with the aftereffects of diphtheria, headed the cast again, and among the lesser stars were Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Rowena Jackson, Michael Somes and a promising newcomer to the troupe, Svetlana Beriosova. Opening-night number: a full-length version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with sparkling new costumes and scenery and changes in the choreography which lengthened the 58-year-old masterpiece to a full four acts...
Actor Farrar in his quiet way preserves a sense of sane reality at the center of what might easily have been a silly whodunit. Nadia Gray is always credible, and lovely to look at in one or two heart-catching little love scenes. In short, at a game where overstatement is all too easy, the British tradition of playing it down is pretty good cinematic cricket...
...critic and ghostwriter by the time he was 20. In the early '30s, he covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic-Composer (Four Saints in Three Acts) Virgil Thomson. On his days off, he has found time to compose a score of scores...