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...dance since childhood, they are strangers to the ways of the world and such diver sions as dating and social dancing. The best of the new generation is notable for their agility and stature. ("I love tall girls," says Balanchine. "The more you can see the better.") Most prom ising of Balanchine's new favorites...
...different set of people, all of whom live in the same complex of garden apartments. In the first segment last week, a 16-year-old girl (Debbie Watson) drove to an airport to pick up an Italian exchange student who was to be her blind date for a school prom. Instead, she picked up Alberto Giacometti, or his equivalent, a world-famous Italian sculptor, who happened to be passing through with a sensational bronze nude in his hand...
...author's device will be recognized instantly by cryptographers, Talmudic scholars, unscramblers of step-by-step directions for assembling toy rocket launchers, and other delvers into meaning's inmost leaf. Shading his words as finely as a subdeb writing home from Miss Porter's (the prom "was marvelous but not marvelous"), Wilson makes it clear that his hero is one of life's least impressive Georges-more Porgie than Washington...
...compositions played annually on the BBC's 3,000 serious music programs. Clock's own tastes lean to the modern, but a typical Clock program is a mixture of classic and modern. ("If you segregate old and new," he says, "music is just a museum.") The "Proms would not be Proms," Clock is convinced, unless they included most of the symphonies of Beethoven, the four Brahms symphonies, the last three of Tchaikovsky. But along with those staples, Clock demands the music of such well-known modernists as Oliver Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, and has commissioned works...
...criticism, and founded a summer school (which he still runs) for composers and performers at Dartington, in Devon. Working on the theory that he could include two new works in a four-work program without losing his audience, Clock started his new job by sprucing up not only the Prom concerts but also the repertories of the three BBC regional orchestras. He also began handing out commissions to promising young composers ("They can't live off us, but we can encourage them...