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Then came the new music. After setting up his audience with two innocuous bits of Impressionism by a college teacher named Alfred J. Swan, Davison presented three of his own wonderful compositions. He sticks pretty close to the old from but is no slave to them, liberally sprinkling his Toccatas and Sonatina with folksy, jazzy elements. This results in coherent outlines that form the rich and varied content of the works. The reliance on structure can backfire, though, and the final section of his Introduction Chorale, Preclued, and Fugue was weighted down with dry academics. For an encore Davison played...
Besides massive production and opulent costuming, the Bolshoi Theatre offers several fine singers, none of whose names are well-known. In Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet ballets, the corps, though great in number, dances with grace and precision. The six or seven minutes of Ulanova are outstandingly beautiful. But on the whole, the cameraman had difficultly in cropping action and maintaining dramatic pitch through the transitions. Especially disturbing are the frequent switches to the audience, who talk with mock enthusiasm about their kolkhoz anniversary. In spite of obvious propaganda, however, creative portrayals of the romantic, tsarist...
Tonight We Sing is at its slickly Technicolored best when it makes music. As Russian Ballerina Anna Pavlova, Toumanova dances the famed Dying Swan. As noted Belgian Violinist Eugéne Ysaÿe, Isaac Stern plays a Wieniawski Concerto and Sarasate's Ziegeunerweisen. As Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Ezio Pinza, in a blond wig, swaggers off with the show by giving a lustily humorous performance and singing snatches from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Gounod's Faust, and a chorus of The Volga Boatman. These latter-day artists offer an earnest approximation of the originals. David Wayne, using...
...with Professor Clarence H. Haring, the only other Harvard teacher in the field, McGann hopes to introduce a General Education course on Latin America. "I am sure there is a lot of latent interest in the area," he points out, "it just needs a little stirring up." JONATHAN O. SWAN...
...triangles which seem to drift from the screen to an audience squinting through special gray-tinted glasses. The effect is startling and impressive for a few minutes, then with a succession of dull and technically imperfect pictures, the wondering eye becomes increasingly strained. In a film of the Black Swan ballet, where leg movements are only a jumbled blur, the infancy of the Tri-Optic method is most evident...