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What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Travesty on Gluck | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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