Word: robbinses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Two Americans were dead. Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the...
Stravinsky composed his ballet Les Noces for a chorus, a quartet of solo singers, four grand pianos and six percussionists, and demanded that they, as well as the dancers, all be onstage. Last week at the New York State Theater, Jerome Robbins crammed them all in, contrived an angular, hectic...
Eighteen times Choreographer Robbins, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Set Designer Oliver Smith, dancers, musicians and singers were called back by the applause, until the great gold-brocade curtain got stuck and refused to drop and rise again for another bow.
Premiered by Diaghilev in 1923 in Paris' Théâtre de la Gaité Lyrique, Les Noces has not been performed in the U.S. since 1936 because of the difficulties of mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet...
Sandra Stuart Robbins had by far the best voice in the cast. Apparently she saved it, for her tone improved steadily. Like Croog, she was unafraid of a conventional characterization, and was consequently charming.