Word: prometheus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program will include Handel's "Welcome as the Cheerful Light from Jeptha" and "Hallelejah, Amen"; "Good News from Heaven" and "Gavote and Muselk"; Beethoven's "Prometheus Overture"; Purcell's "Andante"; Dargomyzhski's "Chorus from Rogdana"; a French Carol, "Ding, Dong Merrily on High"; "The Birch in the Meadow," a Russian folk song; the American folk Song, "Come All ye Fain and Gentle Ladies"; and the English Carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas...
...PROMETHEUS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS-John Lehmann-Knopf ($3.75) Impressionistic travel book on semitropical Russian Georgia, with emphasis on its writers, painters, the Marjhanishvili Theatre, together with random flashbacks of Georgia's turbulent history, a biographical sketch of its most famous native son, Stalin...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...
Aida Barona, prima ballerina, was the outstanding member of the cast. Dancing lead roles in both "Prometheus" and "Hollywood", she showed an excellence that can be favorably compared with many of the dancers of the Ballet Russe. When it is considered that the group had been dancing for only a little more than three years, its faults in technique may be easily forgiven...
...Ballet's lighting and staging method, coupled with its magnificent costumes may very well bring about some changes in the present colorless state of scenic affairs. Thus, the sense of two-dimensionality and the effectiveness of composition and costume that was present in the Egyptian Dance in "Prometheus" seemed to me to be one of the high sports of the evening's performance...