Word: rodion
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...voice could be heard, whispering hunting tales: of his courage when a boar once attacked his jeep; of the bison that stuffed itself with the bait laid out for other animals and then fell contentedly asleep on the steps of the hunting stand, trapping Soviet Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovski in the tower above until a search party rescued...
...intermission, actors, dancers and musicians sought out the opinion of Rodion Shchedrin, the U.S.S.R.'s best known composer of modern music. He declared that he had tried to talk his friend Voznesensky out of getting involved with something as vulgar as a rock opera. Shchedrin, who is chairman of the powerful Russian Composers Union, then explained he had listened to a tape of the music. His verdict: "I fell in love with it." Soviet cultural bureaucrats were not as enthusiastic. They excised musical numbers that they regarded as too religious before giving permission for last week's performance...
...lavish productions and virtuoso dancing. But to dance buffs, the current season has been lackluster, relying heavily on stock repertory and a dwindling pool of leading dancers. The most eagerly anticipated new production, Plisetskaya's The Sea Gull, which she performed to music composed by her husband, Rodion Shchedrin, evoked the atmosphere of Chekhov's play in stylized vignettes but contained little real dancing...
...been all but dispensed with. So might the premise that the action is occurring in the old city of Riga in 1968. Somersaults is one of those plays (Our Town is another) for which the audience projects the essential scenery, place and time out of its own bittersweet memory. Rodion, the fuss-budgety doctor, and his patient Lidya, an actress come down to circus cashier, could as well be in Pasadena as Riga. The true location of each is an almost impermeable condition of the solitude to which life has delivered them. The difference is that Rodion defies his loneliness...
Quayle brings to his portrayal a gritty verve and charm, perfected when he did the same part in London. Martin's Lidya is a scatterbrained and whimsical sprite of a woman whose very casualness with truth seems to put her beyond Rodion's reach. Naturally, love outs - in a scene of bubbly, moonlit tipsiness that finds the two codgers cajoling each other into doing an arthritic Charleston that would vindicate the evening if nothing else...