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...dare try it at her weight. A chance to sing in Chicago blew up when the company went broke. For two years she remained in New York, studying, practicing and eating, but never singing in public. Discouraged and despondent, she sailed for Italy, where she got a job in Verona (at $63 a performance), an audition but no job at La Scala (the director told her that she had lots of faults...
Most of the concerts will devote their first half to sacred music and the second half to secular music. Sacred music only, however, comprises the programs for Florence, Verona, Southwark Cathedral and Westminister Abbey...
During July concerts will be given at Perugia, 1; Rome, 3,4; Pavia, 6; Verona, 8; Venice, 10; Munich, 12; Freiburg, 13; Berlin, 18; Hannover, 20; Ibbenburen, 21; Bonn, 22. They will sing at Emmanuel College, John Harvard's school at Cambridge, July 23. London will hear concerts July...
...action takes place among massive stone arches, against a brooding Verona-like background-actually the hills of the Crimea, near Yalta. To the tune of Prokofiev's rather overexalted music, and the gentle narration of a voice in English, the plot thickens speedily; servants of the feuding Montagues and Capulets meet and taunt one another into a brawl that fills the square. Soon the entire cast is introduced: Romeo, handsome and brawny; Friend Mercutio, here a playboy with wonderfully impudent toes; Tybalt, an arrogant, bloodthirsty Capulet; the stony senior Capulets and Montagues; and, last and best, Ulanova...
...pouter-pigeon torso, stretching straight back to her pointed toes as she is held up, delivers an emotional wallop. But the high point of Ballerina Ulanova's performance is her fluttering despair when faced with a second suitor, and then her precipitous dash, head thrown back, down Verona's streets...