Word: melissa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its failings. Noah made a moving TV debut. It added up to one more success for the team that created such ballets as Petrouchka, Firebird, Orpheus and Agon. Says Prima Ballerina Melissa Hayden, who watched with admiration: "I do not know what Balanchine and Stravinsky will do next, what new medium they will conquer, and what new experiences they will give; I am only sure that when they do. I want to be there and be a part...
...Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "The Music of Love," starring Al fred Drake, Lisa Delia Casa, Franco Corelli, Patti Page, Barbara Cook, and Dancers Jacques d'Amboise and Melissa Hayden. Color...
...coming onstage with a magnificent retinue. There were also some deft characterizations and some fine bits of choreography: a fluent, elegant pas de deux between Conrad Ludlow and Violette Verdy, an elastically lyric solo by Edward Villella as Oberon, a wonderfully comic and closely knit dialogue of movement between Melissa Hayden as the Queen of the Fairies and Roland Vazquez as Bottom, wearing a donkey's head...
...Modern Jazz: Variants, a score for a George Balanchine ballet. Onstage were the white-tied-and-tailed members of the Modern Jazz Quartet and around them, in predominantly green and purple practice clothes, moved the members of the New York City Ballet company, including Soloists Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, John Jones, Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy's frenzied exuberance. Schuller's score was the essence of the "cool"-spare, fragmentary, resembling jazz only...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Van Cliburn, Benny Goodman, Sally Ann Howes, Howard Keel, Ballerina Melissa Hayden. Color...