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  1. Thanks for this – I had never heard of this piece.

    Although you’ve had previous discussions about the changes in dancer’s bodyweight – the dancers in that 40s clip look pretty slim and attenuated. The women in the Farrell clip (early 70s?) are the most rounded.

    The choreography also adapted pretty well to the small stage that the early TV cameras required (back to the 40s clip). I guess that shows what a “chamber” piece it is.

  2. Beautiful dancing and choreography. I marvel at the grace an ease with which they seem to do these difficult movements. Seeing a dancer go en pointe is just beyond my ability to grasp.

  3. There is grace and beauty in these videos, but as an ignorant midwestern farm boy I have to admit I can not appreciate the fine details. But thanks for bringing my ‘horse’ to the water.

  4. the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra — which has finally come clean about its over-friendly relationship with the Third Reich and revealed that almost half its players at the time were Nazi Party members; that 13 Jewish players were expelled, five of them to die in concentration camps; and that a lingering culture of sympathy to Nazism survived into the Sixties thanks to an SS-enrolled trumpeter who not only kept his job after the war but became the orchestra’s executive director.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9922592/The-Nazi-musicians-who-changed-their-tune.html

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