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...like them onstage, you'll love them on the screen. At least that's the hope of moviemakers who are now trying to turn ballet stars into box office draws at the cinema. In Spain, Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 38, has stepped into the role of legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. His sole dancing assignment in the film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne...
...Died. Rudolf Bultmann, 92, one of Europe's most influential Protestant theologians; in Marburg, Germany. The last survivor of a generation of giants that included Karl Earth and Paul Tillich, Bultmann sought a radical way to make Christianity meaningful to modern man. His seminal notion, "demythologizing," rejected any quest for the historical Jesus; events like the Resurrection, he said, were "myths" believable only in a nonscientific age. They thus detracted from the "kerygma" the existential moral truths that Jesus, and Christianity, represent...
Although Perahia began studying piano at six, he was no performing prodigy. Until he reached his mid-20s, he was mainly a team man, playing chamber music with such artists as Alexander Schneider, Rudolf Serkin and Pablo Casals, whom he met at the Marlboro Music Festival. At the Mannes College of Music in Manhattan, Perahia studied conducting with Carl Bamberger. "I was very involved in absolute music, in how certain notes react to one another," he says. Only after he graduated did he become fascinated by the demands and mysteries of solo performing...
...know this isn't supposed to be my element, but pianist Rudolf Serkin is in town this Sunday, playing with a wind quintet at Jordan. Hall and he should not be missed by anyone who loves good piano music...
...been more careful as well. Florida-born Fernando, who turns 21 this week, has spent most of his time recently serving as supersubstitute to a trio of ailing defectors from Russia's Kirov Ballet: Mikhail Baryshnikov, who injured an ankle before his Toronto performance in La Sylphide; Rudolf Nureyev, who missed his Los Angeles production of Raymonda because of pneumonia; and Valery Panov, who pulled a calf muscle while performing his new ballet Heart of the Mountains in San Francisco. "I know 5 -and everyone says-I'm as good as the three of them," boasts Bui jones...