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...much the Shakespeare plot as Mendelssohn's familiar incidental music to Midsummer Night's Dream (the overture was written when the composer was only 17). Balanchine had wanted to work with the music ever since he first heard it as a boy in St. Petersburg, and he got his chance when City Ballet patrons raised $80,000 for a new production...
Nonetheless, the melodrama is great. In rapid succession come plotting, secret messages, angry confrontations, unruly mobs, public confessions, and sledge rides through the Petersburg snow. Through all this, Prince Myshkin appears as a bewildered innocent whose honesty creates more difficulties than it resolves. With the balance tipped so heavily in favor of overdone lavishness the potentially moving utterances of Dostoevsky's Christ sound bizarre and ungenuine...
...Fiddler. In 1959, Josephine Bay married Michael Paul. The son of a surgeon who became a general in the Imperial Russian army, Paul was born in Ulanvdinsk, Outer Mongolia. As a schoolboy, he studied violin in St. Petersburg in the same class with Heifetz. When he was twelve, Paul enlisted in the army, rode off with the Cossack cavalry, was wounded and captured by the Germans. He escaped from prison camp and made his way across Siberia, China and Japan-fiddling for his board and keep...
...West Coast Times staff will consist largely of advertising, circulation and distribution personnel. Similarly, the duties of John B. Olson, 41, who was hired away from the St. Petersburg, Fla., Times to take charge in Los Angeles, will be more managerial than editorial. Like the Times's Paris-based international edition (which in a year has scarcely put a dent in the New York Herald Tribune's solidly established European edition, also headquartered in Paris), the Western Times will be written almost entirely in New York. The whole operation will be bossed from New York by Assistant General...
Though the company is new to the U.S., American audiences have long been familiar with its graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...