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...passages attack incipient forms of Gnosticism. The traditional explanation is that Gnosticism matured after the birth of Christianity and became its archenemy, not only as a separate religion but also as a heretical wing within the early church. Yet some experts, among them Germany's New Testament Critic Rudolf Bultmann, are persuaded that Gnosticism was a full-fledged, working religion even before the arrival of Christ...
...production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit the job in 1974. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and former Met board president during the Rudolf Bing era, thinks highly of Levine and has made no secret of his own reluctance to get involved in day-to-day artistic decisions...
...Erik Bruhn, 46, now resident producer of the National Ballet of Canada, dominated ballet with sheer elegance. His style was pure and restrained, his partnering impeccable. If anything his reputation has increased since his retirement. He has an enormous following and will dance again this summer at A.B.T. When Rudolf Nureyev burst upon the West in 1961, he brought back some of the Nijinsky excitement. Nureyev has always had Tartar energy and impact; now 37, he has become a dancer of protean range...
...future that is not barren." With that, Modern Dance Doyenne Martha Graham, 80, announced a New York benefit in June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her revolutionary dance company. For the occasion, Graham plans a new work called Lucifer. The fallen angel will be played by Rudolf Nureyev. "It's a little typecasting," observed Graham. "I think Nureyev is a God of Light." His longtime partner, Margot Fonteyn, is also scheduled to make her first appearance with a modern dance company in a smaller role. With tickets starting at $50 and climbing to a robust...
...auditioned for Rudolf Bing, the former general manager of the Met, early in her career, but he wasn't interested. So she joined the New York City Opera, made it big ten years later in Handel's Julius Caesar, and afterward turned down all the contracts Bing gingerly offered. No other singer has been able to do this; it is her legend, and she's proud of it. It became a David-and-Goliath myth which her fans loved and continually embellished, the most ardent even supposing that she refused contracts solely out of righteous indignation for not having been...