The Romantic Ballet (Season 1 Episode 4 of 6): Margot Fonteyn explores the story of the Romantic Ballet. The Magic of Dance with Margot Fonteyn airs on BBC Four HD at 10:30 PM, Sunday 14 January. Margot Fonteyn explores the story of the Romantic Ballet
ASTANA. KAZINFORM Two worlds – the 19th and 20th centuries – are completely different and at the same time attractive with their events and discoveries. Reflection of eras can be traced in many art forms, but ballet, speaking the language of the plastique, most accurately conveys the trends of the time. A traditional 19th century ballet – Minkus and Deldevez’s Paquita in Petipa’s choreography, and a modern ballet from the 20th century – Jiří Kylián’s Sechs Tänze to Mozart’s music will be presented on February 5 at Astana Opera, Kazinform learned from the press service of Astana Opera.
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Cornell attended secondary school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for four years, beginning in 1917, the year in which his father died of leukemia. Cornell’s formal education ended when he graduated from Andover in 1921, at which time he returned to live with his mother, who had moved from Nyack, New York, with Cornell’s younger brother, Robert, to Queens. In 1929 the Cornell family moved into a home at 3708 Utopia Parkway in Flushing, Queens, where Cornell would remain, rather reclusively, for the rest of his life.
From 1921 to 1931 Cornell worked in Manhattan as a salesman for a textile company in order to help support his family. After hearing about Christian Science from a coworker, Cornell began to read the works of its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, ultimately converted to the religion in 1925, and regularly attended services at a local church. His job in the city also exposed him to a new range of possibilities in the arts. Working in Manhattan gave him the oppo
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Few realize that the sale of Binney & Smith Crayola crayons, those staples of so many childhoods, helped fund one of the largest physical donations of art in the history of Houghton Library’s Harvard Theatre Collection (HTC). The 1986 bequest of 10,000 dance prints from Edwin Binney, 3rd, ’46, Ph.D. ’61, who became the HTC’s honorary curator of ballet, contributed significantly to its becoming one of the largest and most prominent performing-arts collections in the world.
The Binney family fortunes began with an English immigrant, Joseph Walker Binney, founder of a chemical plant that specialized in the red oxide pigment used to paint barns. His son Edwin Binney Sr. and a cousin, C. Harold Smith, co-founded Binney & Smith, creating the first dustless white blackboard chalk in 1902 and producing the first box of Crayola crayons in 1903. That portmanteau name combines