Word: pas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Auspitz: Ce n'est pas drole...
...salute to her husband, Prince Stanislaus ("Stash") Radziwill-who just happened to be home in London at the time. Locking his gaze on Jacqueline Kennedy's fashion mentor, Oleg Cassini, Roosevelt droned relentlessly on, undeterred by the President's prompting interjections (". . . Stash, wherever you are"), committing a pas almost anyone might have fauxed (see cuts...
...what had happened when the identical passage was correctly played at the end of the piece. Those who realized at the time that Britten had not intended the opening notes to sound like a tuba solo suffered a moment of agonized embarrassment for the performer. Indeed, such a faux pas might easily have flustered the most experienced of artists, but Mr. Pottle recovered quickly and played quite well from there on. The orchestra was adequate, and Mr. Walker again sang superbly. Senturia generally kept up a good balance among soloists and instruments except in the middle of the rather terrifying...
Three nights after the Kirov's debut, Sizova stopped the show again with Yuri Soloviev in a wildly exuberant pas de deux from Marius Petipa's Corsair, part of a program of excerpts that the troupe brought off with virtuosity and vigor...
...contrast. Where the Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic...