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Feline, flamboyant and faintly Oriental, Rudolf Nureyev has leaped across the stages of U.S. and European theaters for more than 20 years, capturing larger audiences for ballet than any other dancer in history...
Testifying before the U.S. District Court in Providence, on February 1. Brown professor Rudolf Winkes charged that Dean of Faculty Maurice Glickman violated the equal pay provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act by intentionally awarding a higher salary to a female art professor of equal status...
During the struggle for power at the Met that followed Sir Rudolf Bing's retirement as general manager and the death in 1972 of Göran Gentele, his successor, in an automobile crash, two men emerged triumphant. Bliss, whose father had been the Met's chairman of the board, became executive director and, later, general manager. Levine became music director. His boyish grin remained undimmed, even during the bitter labor dispute that postponed the opening of the 1980 season; it was, says Sue Thomson, "the closest I've ever seen him to being depressed...
...house at Broadway and 39th Street, which was built in 1883, was outmoded, and Bliss became a chief proponent of a move to a new structure in Lincoln Center. He won his argument, and the company journeyed north in 1966. But following a feud with Rudolf Bing, the Met's impresario from 1950 to 1972, he was pushed aside as board president. When Bing's successor, Schuyler Chapin, failed to curb the escalating deficits, Bliss was brought in as a salaried executive to put the house in order...
...than I do. They do things I wouldn't begin to attempt. But when they come onstage, they might as well be soda jerks." Even among the surviving major pianists of his own generation, however, he was unsurpassed. Vladimir Horowitz, 78, may have a flashier, more dazzling technique; Rudolf Serkin, 79, may have a more intense emotional identification with the German classics; Claudio Arrau, 79, may have an even wider repertoire. But Rubinstein had everything: in his playing, consummate virtuosity and a pellucid tone were at the service of a natural musical storyteller...