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...program that was deftly complementary to the piano recital of Leonard Shure a week earlier. Once again a work of Beethoven provided us the cornerstone, this time one from his more extroverted second period--the Sonata in A major Op. 47 ("Kreutzer"). But if Shure concentrated on the nineteenth century, the Laredos almost seemed to go out of their way to avoid it. The rest of their program consisted of Bach's Sonata No. 2 in A major and the Sonata Concertante of resident composer Leon Kirchner...
Still, these are relatively minor objections to a performance of three momentous works that was moving and inspiring. Shure began this year's summer concert series with neither a bang nor a whimper, but with a resounding reaffirmation of the piano and the Nineteenth Century. Euterpe should be pleased...
...workable arrangement would be to call young men in their twenty-first year in an order of call determined by lottery, but with the lottery taking place in the young man's nineteenth year. At age nineteen a young man would have a good idea of the likelihood of his being called two years later, and could anticipate his service by electing to be drafted at age nineteen or twenty. A longer period of choice might have the unhealthful effect of inducing young men to speculate unduly on changes in the prospects for war and peace or even for changes...
...occasion for these campy carryings-on was a festival of 19th century music presented by Kansas City's venturesome, three-year-old Performing Arts Foundation. Producer Lawrence Kelly, borrowed for the occasion from the Dallas Opera, billed his "Nineteenth Century Affair" as an attempt to capture the "gaiety and spirit of the romantic era." Nowhere did it succeed more effervescently than in the centerpiece of the week-long festival: a polished, witty production of Jacques Offenbach's 1858 operetta, Orpheus in the Underworld...
Saturday the company danced its version of Swan Lake, which may surpass the Bolshoi's. One of the longest and most poignant classical ballets, inherited almost unaltered from Petipa and the nineteenth century Imperial Russian ballet, it provides the British company the ideal opportunity to show off its greatest strength -- the corps de ballet...