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...waste of time," though he acknowledges that they "may be of help to students incapable of learning German or unwilling to take the time to do it." He agrees completely with Edmund Wilson's celebrated verdict that Nabokov's translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is unreadable. Lately, Manheim has been outraged by the praise lavished on the new English version of Remembrance of Things Past. Manheim, who has translated Proust's letters, says, "The first translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, was a little awkward and a little mistaken, but he did a "marvelous job. Now Terence...
...students from the company-related School of American Ballet. Both John Taras, one of the ballet masters, and Peter Martins, the company's top male dancer, who is doing more and more choreography, did their best work for students. Taras' setting of the sophisticated waltz from Eugene Onegin is a civilized pleasure to watch. He creates unfussy, satisfying patterns and matches them to the still developing skills of his cast. They should be grateful for their roles, and it is likely that the Onegin waltz, knowing and unassuming, will be around a long time...
...EUGENE ONEGIN. Drawn from Pushkin by the composer and his librettist friend Konstantin Shilovsky, this is an exquisitely melancholy romance about a girl (Tatiana) who grows up and a cad (Onegin) who does not. The Bolshoi production dates from 1944, and the company treats it with veneration...
Among several casts, the singing of Bari tone Mazurok (Onegin) and Tenor Vla dimir Atlantov (Lensky) is solidly sono rous, and as Tatiana, Tamara Milashki-na sings with a full lyric voice that is gratifyingly free of the shrill vibrato heard from so many Russian sopranos...
...What Onegin and Pique Dame have in common with everything else done by the Bolshoi is a strong sense of es prit, unity and permanence. In the best Stanislavsky tradition, this is a troupe that performs as a dedicated ensemble...