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Terry Teachout

Betty Cuningham

Betty Cuningham Gallery

All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine

<p>Product Description      Twenty years after his death, George Balanchine still dominates the world of ballet. Not only have his works been danced by the New York City Ballet continuously since 1948, but they also have been performed by more than two dozen other companies throughout the world. In clear and elegant writing, Terry Teachout brings to life the dramatic story of George Balanchine, a Russian émigré who fell in love with American culture, married four times and kept a mistress on the side, and transformed the art of ballet forever.Martha Graham said that watching George Balanchine choreograph a ballet was like watching light pass through a prism. The music passes through him, and in the same natural yet marvelous way that a prism refracts light, he refracts music into dance. Two decades after his death, the ruthless, enigmatic founder of N.Y. City Ballet still dominates the world of dance. He worked with Serge Diaghilev -- and Sam Goldwyn. He made ballets to the music of Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky -- and to The Stars & Stripes Forever. His plotless, seemingly abstract dances were as romantic as the genius who made them. Here is the dramatic story of the greatest choreographer -- and why his ballets will be even more significant in the century to come. Illus.      Review      PRAISE FOR TERRY TEACHOUT"Terry Teachout is the kind of tour guide a first-rate biography requires-vivid storytelling by a guide who is both appreciative and independent."-Ken AulettaPRAISE FOR THE SKEPTIC"A lively and unvarnished portrayal of a complex and fascinating figure."-The Baltimore Sun</DIV> --The Baltimore Sun      About the Author      Terry Teachout writes about literature and the arts for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the National Review, and the Washington Post. He is the author of The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken and The Terry Teachout Reader. He lives in New York City.</p>

Harcourt

Dust jacket notes:  "Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century and a giant of modern music culture.  He knocked the Beatles off the charts, had numerous hit records and shifted the jazz scene's focus from collective imiprovisation to solo performers.  The ranks of his admirers included Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock and Orson Welles.  Offstage Armstrong was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and sharper-edged than his worshipping fans ever realised.  In Pops Terry Teachout has drawn on a cache of rich new sources unavailable to previous biographers, including hundreds of reels of private backstage recordings and after-hours conversations that Armstrong held throughout the second half of his life, to craft an in-depth biography of the towering figure whom Philip Larkin described as 'an artist of Flaubertian purity...more important than Picasso.'"

Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong

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