Word: swanning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never tries to overcome the music's essential dance quality with virtuoso orchestral tricks. A delightful album, and by far the best Swan Lake on the market. William Bender
...soon as she had released her order, Chou Yang announced from his high office in the Ministry of Culture that he was sending the very company she was working with to Hong Kong to perform Swan Lake! She was outraged but helpless. [Chou Yang reportedly maligned] The Red Detachment as an "infant in swaddling bands sucking its thumb" and an "ugly daughter...
...succeeded so well that in ten years he took over as president. Over the next 41 years, he saw his country school blossom into Grambling State University, legendary in pro football and a leader in remedial education. At 71, Jones is finally retiring this spring. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan visited Grambling to talk with him about his half-century in black education. Her report...
...book, the man with these radical ideas emerges as a charming, courtly Frenchman who proved singularly attractive to women. One major figure in the Lukases' story is Lucile Swan, a well-to-do American sculptress separated from her husband. She talked long hours in Peking with the priest and eventually became embittered at his total commitment to celibacy. Teilhard could willingly suffer the privations of expeditions into the northwestern wastes of China. But he seemed more at home attending salon gatherings with personalities ranging from Biologist Julian Huxley to Actress Linda Darnell...
...Carter's Inaugural concert ("I was so nervous. My God, I was awful!") and then, on a whim, freighted on to Manhattan to watch a performance of NBC's Saturday Night show and to hang out with actors and rock friends. New York's Plaza, that swan-bosomed dowager among luxury hotels, has become a favorite roosting place for wealthy rockers (Ringo was there too). To Linda, the Plaza was just one more stop on the road, but it provided a splendid scenic view of the lady rocker rampant...