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...Swan Song...
...show Saturday night was hardly the most raucous on Casino record, but compared with traditionally devout audience participation, it made a fitting "Swan Song." The house was packed for one of the few times in the manager's recollection. Box seats which usually go unsold were filled early, and when the first attractions scampered into the spotlight there was standing room only...
...hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank to the canvas like a tired swan. "It was a good punch," Cooper said later, when he found his voice. "I never saw it. I didn't even feel it. If I could have got up, I would have...
...Swan Song. To start the season, Director Carl Ebert chose Mozart's Don Giovanni. The performance was to be a swan song for Ebert, who fled Germany in 1933 to become a U.S. citizen, returned to Berlin in 1954 to take up his old job as director of the City Opera. He was scheduled to retire after opening night, and he left on a high note. At opera's end, the audience enthusiastically applauded Native Son Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who sang Don Giovanni brilliantly, but the wildest cheers of its 15-minute ovation were for Ebert. The following...
...striking contrast. Where the Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto, and the spectacular is always shunned for the stylistic...