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...fondly recalls the mornings when Balanchine arrived at the theater at 8 a.m. to help him with the fine points of lighting. But Mr. B. was not always so accommodating. A scant three hours before the premiere of Martins' setting of Stravinsky's Suite from Histoire du Soldat, Balanchine examined the costumes, pronounced them "awful" and threw them out. The dancers went on clothed in bits and pieces from the costume bins and shod in boots that Martins himself had spray-painted black an hour earlier. "He was right," Martins now says. "The costumes I had picked melted...
...design a ballet around Stravinsky's Suite from "L'Histoire du Soldat"? When George Balanchine asked him to do just that last fall, Peter Martins, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, thought he knew very well why not. With six pieces of choreography to his credit, Martins, 34, was promising but relatively inexperienced. Even veteran choreographers have found Stravinsky's jagged rhythms and irregular beats difficult, if not impossible to translate into movement. L'Histoire du Soldat, which originated as a theater piece with libretto, has virtually resisted a successful dance setting ever...
...knee. Friends report that he has considered an acting career, and the aging dancer has been showing up at a London studio to cut his first record. Nureyev, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1961, read the title role of Stravinsky's L 'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) in lightly accented English. He then described his trepidation at leaving his silent art even temporarily. "I usually don't have the courage," confessed Nureyev, "but I arrange things so that I can't escape." Nervous or not, he apparently intends to keep...
Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat; Jay Gottlieb, piano, Ronan Lefkowitz, violin, and David Kass, clarinet; Currier Fish...
Shaking hands warmly with the President, the ebullient Brezhnev led him by the arm to a position in front of the honor guard and coached him to say "Spasibo, soldat [Thank you, soldiers]." For Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Brezhnev had a bouquet of roses. Nixon spent five minutes shaking hands with a smiling crowd of about 500, most of them bused in from nearby offices, and then rode with Brezhnev in a black Zil limousine the 15 miles to the Kremlin. The route, mainly along Lenin Avenue, was decked with American flags, as it had been in 1972, but crowds were...