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Last week, a Ballet Society audience in Manhattan saw and heard what most Stravinsky fans had been waiting for: Orpheus, a new ballet by Stravinsky and Choreographer George Balanchine...
...year-old Composer Stravinsky jumped briskly to the podium, he got an ovation. When the curtain went up, the audience was at first more taken with the simple blue & white brilliance of the set (by Isamu Noguchi) than with the somber opening chords of Stravinsky's music. But Orpheus turned out to be a brilliant wedding of score, choreography and setting. It was not, however, an incitement to riot, as its famed predecessor The Rite of Spring had been in Paris, 35 years ago. Composer Stravinsky, in white tie & tails, took his bows onstage with the dancers, his feet...
Stravinsky's music has, always been as carefully machined as a row of ball bearings, and sometimes no more expressive. But listeners last week found his Orpheus score full of some of the most exciting and dramatic music he has written in the past 30 years. His critics accuse him of writing dry music; he retorts that his favorite composers-the men before Bach -wrote dry music...
...Spring came to Boston. Strollers on the Charles River Esplanade noticed a childish scrawl which read: "Orpheus loves Eurydice...
Agrarian Problems. In 1943 Miss Anderson married Orpheus Fisher, an architect who works in Danbury, Conn. Now they live, not far from Danbury, on a beautiful, 105-acre farm, "Marianna." Inside, the handsome, white frame, hillside house has been remodeled by Architect Fisher. He also designed the big, good-looking studio in which Miss Anderson practices...