Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple of flowers instead of a whorish chorus line. But the story about Ottilie turning down rich Lord Jamison for poor Royal Bonaparte and the fluctuating fortunes of Madame Fleur has neither the strength nor the wit to profit by this scaled-down production. Arlen's charm-marinated score-which includes a rousing new wedding number called Jump de Broom-gains nothing from small voices onstage and a five-piece combo in the orchestra pit. Yolande Bavan as Ottilie is as pretty as she is unconvincing, and funky-voiced Josephine Premice brings a fine high style to the role...
...opening night, the Pennsylvanians dared a world premiere-and a difficult one it was. Ceremony, by protean choreographer John Butler, a Martha Graham disciple, is cast in the new mold of dehumanized abstraction that Balanchine recently demonstrated in Metastaseis & Pithoprakta (TIME, Jan. 26). The score for Ceremony, by Polish avant-garde Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, is an aggressive compendium of cacophonies-growlings, twitterings, bongs and clashes, punctuated by police whistles and sirens...
...Balanchine ballet suggested the physics lab, the permutations of Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...
Bobby Beller shot well against Yale, but he hasn't been consistent. Jeff Grate still doesn't have his confidence back, and Mickey Norlander hasn't been able to get loose for shots. Bob Kanuth will score from underneath, but Wilson may have to start using sophomore Jerry O'Neil again to get some points...
Other demands seem certain to hit snags. Congress has cut foreign aid and has shown little inclination to lower trade barriers. And the abortive attempt to form a Latin American common market offers little encouragement on the score of cooperation among the poor nations...