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...wife of Composer Dmitri Tiomkin; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Trained in Vienna's Imperial Theater, a performer in New York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week for three pictures: Marie Antoinette, The Great...
...album cover as for the music itself. Not that the composer writes revealingly about his art ("All the Piano Pieces V-X are characterized by groups of notes around nuclear notes, occurring before, with or after them."). Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides...
Married. Anthony Bliss, 54, Manhattan attorney and longtime (1956-67) president of the Metropolitan Opera Association, which handles everything except the opera's artistic affairs; and Sally Brayley, 29, soloist in the Met's ballet troupe until last December; he for the third time, she for the second; in her home town, Prince's Lodge, Nova Scotia, on July 24, one month after he was divorced by onetime Actress (My Sister Eileen) Jo Ann Savers, 48, his wife of 26 years...
Leonard Bernstein, in a guest appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic (London), gives a turbulent interpretation that shows his affinity for Mahler. But Tenor James King sounds a bit forced, and the second soloist is a baritone instead of the usual, complementary mezzo-soprano. However, that baritone is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and his 30-minute Farewell is a perfect fusion of poetry and song...
This put 'cellist Joel Krosnick in a rather odd position. His solution was to play as a member of the orchestra instead of as a soloist--a telling sign of musicianship. His playing was precise and controlled, and he gave an admirable rendering of the wide variety of 'cellistic effects called for by the composer...