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...punchinello figures and Picasso's own designs for Satie's Parade; the paintings of Dufy and Matisse for the imaginary seaside town of Zanzibar in Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias; Matisse again for the blazing and mysterious red-and-blue moonlit garden in Ravel's L 'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Chinese vase painting for Stravinsky's Le Rossignol...
...surgery was fraught with danger. Years of cortisone therapy, DeVries pointed out, had made the fabric of Clark's heart so delicate that it tore "like tissue paper" during the operation. When the team, working to a recording of Ravel's Bolero, finally succeeded in replacing the organ with the mechanical device, said DeVries, "it was a spiritual experience for everyone in the room." But the new heart failed to pump properly, and a standby unit had to be substituted. Finally, after 7½ hr., Clark's heart output was normal, he had what was described...
...memorable and often modern plot and characters, music that can stand on its own merit, and sets that linger in the mind. The musical repertory is as diverse as the dance styles, adding Miles Davis and the group Earth, Wind and Fire to the more traditional Mendelssohn. Bach and Ravel "Revelations," set to chotal Negro spirituals, glorifies the Black experience through folk dancing and Biblical motifs...
Alvin Ailey's latest composition, "Satyriade," set to music by Maurice Ravel, provides a sharp contrast. In this piece, the merits of the performance rest more on the superb choreography and the technical success of the dancers than on any plot. Beautifully danced by three couples with the women dressed as Greek nymphs and the men as the lecherous mythical satyrs, the dance stresses the pas de deux structure, with the different pairs alternating on stage. Although their movements and gestures are based on ballet, the overall quality is much more free and unrestrained and possesses a fluid, electric energy...
...Moore's first megasuccess in film, Bo Derek did a little of both, accompanied by the hard-breathing beat of Ravel's Boléro. In Arthur, an even bigger hit, duties were shared by Liza Minnelli and John Gielgud, who played his long-suffering valet. There have been a couple of flops along the way, notably the ghoulish Six Weeks, whose bad reviews have left the star angry and bewildered...