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...Joffrey's discoveries is huge (6 ft. 4 in.) Trinidad-born Christian Holder, 21. Blessed with a lean, rubbery face and with limbs of astonishing flexibility, Holder has a good actor's ability to turn his towering physique to dramatic effect. As the puppet villain in Petrouchka, he presents the quaint spectacle of a black performing in blackface and shows a notable gift for deadpan comedy. His terrorizing, primitive presence as Death in Kurt Jooss's antiwar tract, The Green Table, dominates the stage and sends chills through even a sophisticated dance audience...
...company's size (between 38 and 40 dancers). Reflecting Joffrey's scholarly catholic taste, pieces by other choreographers range from delicate snippets of 19th century Danish court-style ballet (Bournonville's William Tell Variations) to an intelligently danced but dramatically muzzy re-creation of Petrouchka, to the somber, erotic psychodrama of Todd Bolender's The Still Point (new with the company this season...
...very greatest works- Petrouchka. Le Sacre du Printemps, Les Noces, Pulcinella. Apollo, Symphony of Psalins, the Mass, and the incomparable, Igon-Igor Stravinsky never yielded to the "luxurious gloom of choice" which has afflicted so many artists of this century. He pulls the mind of man above itself by the renovation of new rules. In this last book he laughs life into lucidity, he laughs the world into health. It is now an old man's laughter, pungent, compassionate, never self-serving...
BRAHMS: FIVE PIANO PIECES; STRAVINSKY: THREE MOVEMENTS FROM PETROUCHKA (RCA Victor). Misha Dichter, 22, is another young pianist of great promise and considerable accomplishment. The Brahms is simple music that demands color and tone from the interpreter, which Dichter supplies confidently; Petrouchka has brought him ovations in recital. The three movements are a showcase for a virtuoso technique, and Dichter cuts loose with a fury of sound. Fortunately, he also reveals a calmer temperament in the balancing poetic passages...
...familiar blips, snaps and bee-swarming sounds usually associated with electronic music, it soon proved its special if not necessarily pleasing power with waves of organ-rich tones and descending spirals of patterned trills. "This was an adventure in sound," said Mehta later. "We must remember that when Petrouchka was first performed, it wasn't pleasing to the ears. The Syn-Ket has an immense future...