Word: premiã
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...American life reduces itself essentially to violent alternations of Work and Play"?so says John Alden Carpenter, U. S. composer; so does he depict it in his new ballet, Skyscrapers, given its premi??re last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life...