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...brief illness; in Cologne, West Germany. Invited at age 18 to join the Ballets Russes by Impresario Serge Diaghilev, who admired "his deep burning eyes in a face already touched by melancholy," the Moscow-born Massine scored his first great success in 1917, when he collaborated with Artist Pablo Picasso, Writer Jean Cocteau and Composer Erik Satie to produce Parade, thus turning the ballet world toward modernism. The wiry dancer, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was probably best known to the general public for his film performances in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman...
...calo, the capital's huge central square, there were cheers for "Juan Pablo" and banners reading CHRISTIANITY YES, SOCIALISM NO and MEXICO IS CATHOLIC. Not so many years ago, such sentiments would have earned the sign carriers a trip to the police station. "I didn't think I would live to see the day," beamed Carpenter Juan Martinez Barrios, 75. The Pope entered the Metropolitan Cathedral to recite, in well-rehearsed and nearly flawless Spanish, the first Papal Mass in Mexican history. For several weeks he had spent up to an hour a day brushing...
...Grand Duke of Hesse enabled him to add the aristocratic von to his name by making him a baron.) Von Hirsch bought his first painting, a Toulouse-Lautrec, in 1907, and about that time also picked up a canvas dated 1901 by a 26-year-old Spaniard named Pablo Picasso. It was in the 1920s and early '30s, however, that Von Hirsch assembled his medieval collection. In 1933, as the political climate in Germany grew ugly, Von Hirsch, a Jew, moved across the Swiss border to Basel. He won permission to take his collection with him on condition...
...Pablo Casals Orgy--Recordings of works by Bach, Brahms, Schubert and other. On WHRB 95.3 FM from...
...sixth generation of a family of celebrated musicians, he was born in 1924 in the town of Gouripur, located in Bangladesh. He gave his first concert at the age of seven, and made his first recording in his early teens. His reputation now is equivalent to that of Pablo Casals in the West...