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...could go back to play, I would do it," she says. "But in no other way would I go back. I have a new life here, and I like it." Davidovich has begun to concertize with her son, and together they have made two records of Grieg and Ravel. "I haven't the time to miss things in Russia," sums up Davidovich. "I am my own Goskontsert. I play with good conductors in good concert halls, and in every country there are friends from Russia. It's a good life...
DIED. Marcel Moyse, 95, celebrated French flutist who premiered works by Stravinsky and Ravel, wrote more than 30 comprehensive books on flute technique and was an influential teacher into his 90s. He passed on the playing style of the great 19th century French School to several of today's virtuosi, among them France's Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called Moyse "the king," and Ireland's James Galway, who claimed him as "my guru" in Brattleboro...
...refers to almost solely in terms of his exquisite clothes-felt hats as smooth as satin, overcoats that Garbo loved. Helena Rubinstein is remembered for the beauty of her buttonholes, Clark Gable for the best eyelashes she ever saw. And if the tall stories about kings and playboys often ravel, the shrewdness and impersonal good humor of the storyteller are intact. Cole Porter, of course, wrote a couplet about Vreeland: "Here's Diana/ Sittin' on the piana." And that's where she has been, swinging her legs, for most of the century...
...potential as clear as it was in this Olympian performance. Twice before in competition they had received nine 6.0 scores on their second marks for artistic impression, but at Sarajevo they added three 6.0s in the scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill and Dean, ice dancing is much more than a Roseland medley of a dash of tango, a pinch of waltz, then up and out with some fancy polka footwork. In place...
...reached the pinnacle for us so far," Dean, 25, said after the couple's passionate performance to Ravel's "Bolero...