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...last week, Lincoln Kirstein, general director of the New York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at Tintagel, he explained, is something very special. It is not only an all-English affair, with choreography by Frederick Ashton of Sadler's Wells, scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Sir Arnold Bax. It might even be called "the first fruits of the new Elizabethan...
...enjoyment, but in any event, the Pas de Deux and the dancers' individual variations were the high points of the evening. Yvette Chauvire and Leon Danielian also did a fine job as the Swan Queen and the Prince in Swan Lake, but for anyone who has seen the Sadler's Wells full-length production, the Ballet Russe's version is always a frustrating experience...
...routines by Coley Worth and Nina Olivette); and some jokes that are neither clean nor dirty, but just dusty with age. The funniest part of the whole show, I thought, was "The Women," a song-and-dance routine in Act Two that satirizes everything from Sadler's Wells to the Old Howard...
When she was picked as the only successful candidate in a group of 15 auditioning for the Sadler's Wells ballet school last week, Heller, nine-year-old daughter of Mary Martin, announced that her new idol was Moira Shearer. Furthermore, she said, "I want to be the greatest ballerina in the world. I don't want to sing and act like my mother...
Died. Constant Lambert, 45, British composer, conductor, author; of diabetes; in London. At 20, he wrote a score for Romeo and Juliet (premiered by the Ballet Russe in 1926), soon began to mix conducting with composing, joined the Vic-Wells (later Sadler's Wells Ballet) Company as musical director. In later years he became a conductor for the BBC, and a prolific record maker. In Music Ho! (subtitled "A Study of Music in Decline") he took a gloomy view of most modern music, blasted Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg and derided "musical snobs" who failed to realize that Duke Ellington...