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WITH ALL THE SUBTLETY of drivers who slow their cars and gape at roadside accidents, critics write about the aging of Rudolf Nureyev. Like particularly patient vultures, they have circled for years, nothing and describing every sloppy move, every step not letter-perfect, every effort less than wrenching. It is true: Nureyev looks worse today than he did ten years ago, or even five years...
...tickets in the capital. The some 2,000 guests who attended this year's event witnessed the presentation of lifetime-achievement awards in the performing arts to an august quintet: Actor Cary Grant, 77, Actress Helen Hayes, 81, Jazzman Count Basie, 75, Choreographer Jerome Bobbins, 63, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin, 78. The gala will be broadcast by CBS on Dec. 26. Said a pleased Hayes, "Us old-timers were like kids who were graduating magna cum laude-we were really sailing above the earth...
...Haydn concerto. Violinists Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern were on hand too, the picture of collegial conviviality in a Vivaldi double concerto. Soprano Leontyne Price, the diva di tutte le dive, sang arias by Verdi, Richard Strauss and Puccini with resplendent warmth and freshness. And there was Pianist Rudolf Serkin, happily singing along as he performed in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy. At the end, Isaac Stern struck up Happy Birthday, and 2,600 fashionably dressed folk in Symphony Hall joined...
Benjamin M. Mattlin '84 vividly remembers a classroom scene from ninth grade, when he was new to the small, private Rudolf Steiner School in New York and "very self-conscious" of his wheelchair and quadriplegic condition. A boy with a hearing aid was visiting the school, which has an almost entirely ablebodied student population. Mattlin remembers. "I looked at him and thought. "He looks pitiful. It's just a minor disability, but he identifies as a handicapped person. You can't really relate to him as a whole human being because he seems so dominated by that disability.'" Mattlin recalls...
...Rudi and I dancing together was not a big deal, but pure tongue-in-cheek fun," says Mikhail Baryshnikov, 33, of his first appearance with Countryman Rudolf Nureyev, 43. Though they are longtime rivals, each responded with a hearty da when Choreographer Paul Taylor suggested that they pair up at the opening night gala for his New York dance company. The result was about as Russian as apple pie. In From Sea to Shining Sea, Taylor's 1965 send-up of American life, Baryshnikov played an office worker and George Washington, while Nureyev portrayed a workman and a Brando...