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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The flashing first-scene duet of tall, part-Osage Indian Ballerina Maria Tallchief (the fourth Mrs. Balanchine*) as the Firebird and Francisco Moncion as the Prince brought a touchdown roar from the audience. In the second scene, Balanchine managed to move the evil Kostchei and his 40 demons back & forth...
"Real American." Now that he has a permanent home in which he can polish old works and plan new ones, Russian-born Choreographer Balanchine, a U.S. citizen for ten years, hopes he is on the road to a permanent American ballet company, something like Britain's national ballet, the...
With more ballets, Balanchine figures he can extend his season beyond its skimpy three weeks each fall and spring, keep his already devoted dancers eating a few more square meals a year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30...
Strauss was by no means happy with the way conductors handled Beethoven and his favorite, Mozart. "Some so-called wizards of the baton," he wrote, "play Beethoven and Mozart finales as though they were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness...