• Léonide Massine choreographed La Boutique Fantasque for — of course — humans. Believe it or not, while Mr. Massine was in residence in San Francisco in 1977, a version of the dance was performed at the Rossmoor Miniature Theatre — the dancers were puppets!
Rehearsals
• George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet once needed a leading dancer to perform as Apollo at short notice, and Peter Martins, a young dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet, was called in to dance. Everything seemed to Mr. Martins to go well at the first performance, and the critics agreed, but the next day at rehearsal Mr. Balanchine said to him, “Before we begin, you know, you do it all wrong.” Then Mr. Balanchine showed him what he wanted. (Mr. Martins says he got the impression during the rehearsal that perhaps the one thing he had done right was to show up for the performance.) Later, Mr. Balanchine told Mr. Martins’ teacher, Stanley Williams, that he had been impressed with the young dancer at the rehearsal: “I changed everything, and he remembered everything.” This led to Mr. Martins being asked to join the New York City Ballet.
• Anna Pavlova’s dance company once arrived in Washington, D.C., for a three-day engagement, but the ballet master neglected to call for a morning rehearsal — an oversight the dancers gleefully took advantage of. Arriving at the theater that evening with only minutes left to put on makeup and costumes, the dancers were confronted by Ms. Pavlova, who told them to form a straight line on the stage, then asked, “Have you practiced today?” All of the dancers were forced to admit that they had not. Ms. Pavlova then said, “I am Anna Pavlova — you are my corps de ballet. I practice every day while you do nothing — we will have a lesson here and now.” She then made her dancers practice for half an hour, despite the audience members who were impatiently stamping their feet on the other side of the curtain while waiting for the performance to begin.
• Opera singer Mary Garden sometimes watched rehearsals of the Ballets Russes with Sergei Diaghilev, and she noticed just how much attention to detail he paid. On one occasion, he noticed a tiny flower in a dancer’s hair and ordered her to remove it because the color wasn’t right. Ms. Garden asked him, “Don’t you ever rest?” Mr. Diaghilev replied, “My dear Mary, there is all eternity to rest.” Ms. Garden writes, “I don’t wonder it was the greatest ballet company in the world.”
• Buddy Ebsen is perhaps most famous for his role as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies; however, he and Vilma Ebsen were a famous brother-and-sister dance team during the 1930s. Frequently, they rehearsed in hot, unventilated rehearsal halls, leaving pools of sweat on the floor. Other people used to come into the rehearsal hall, look at the pools of sweat on the floor, and ask, “Were the Ebsens here?”
• At a ballet rehearsal in London, Sergei Diaghilev suddenly asked Leon Bakst, “What are the three most beautiful things in this theatre today?” Then he answered his own question, “[Ballerina] Olga Spessiva, the little boy with the big brown eyes, and me.” The “little boy with the big brown eyes” was Anton Dolin, who became famous throughout the world as a ballet dancer.
• When it came to his dancing, Fred Astaire was a perfectionist. He sometimes rehearsed 18 hours a day, losing up to 15 pounds in the process. In addition, when his dancing partners rehearsed with him, at the end of the practice, they would sometimes find blood in their shoes. Mr. Astaire once explained why he rehearsed so much: “I wanted to make it good, then make it better.”
• Ballerina Natalia Makarova was rehearsing Manon when the orchestra suddenly began playing an unexpected piece of music. She felt bad because this meant she wasn’t sufficiently familiar with the music of the ballet, but then she saw everyone smiling at her and realized that the orchestra was playing “Happy Birthday.”
Also known as chimes, this musical instrument was favored by Mike Oldfield on what is now considered the the "Theme from The Exorcist". What is the name of this member of the percussion family?
Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, in proportions which can be varied to achieve varying mechanical and electrical properties. It is a substitutional alloy: atoms of the two constituents may replace each other within the same crystal structure.
Brass has long been a popular material for decoration for its bright gold-like appearance, e.g. for drawer pulls and doorknobs. It has also been widely used for all sorts of utensils due to many properties, such as low melting point, workability (both with hand tools and with modern turning and milling machines), durability, electrical and thermal conductivity. It is still commonly used in applications where low friction and corrosion resistance is required, such as locks, hinges, gears, bearings, ammunition casings, zippers, plumbing, hose couplings, valves, and electrical plugs and sockets. It is used extensively for musical instruments such as horns and bells, and also used as substitute of copper in making costume jewelry, fashion jewelry and other imitation jewelry. The composition of brass, generally 66% copper and 34% zinc, makes it a favorable substitute for copper based jewelry as it exhibits greater resistance to corrosion. Brass is often used in situations in which it is important that sparks not be struck, such as in fittings and tools used near flammable or explosive materials.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
zinc
Mark. said:
Copper and Zinc.
Alan J answered:
Zinc.
Cal in Vermont replied:
Copper and zinc. Another copper and zinc article is the humble penny which is now 97.5% zinc.
Mac Mac responded:
Zinc
mj wrote:
Nasty stuff
My uncle worked with brass, making plumbing and other fittings. He
always had little brass slivers that were sharp as hell stuck to his
clothes and shoes. The zinc really mad the copper kind of brittle.
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
Brass is an amalgam of copper and zinc. As a kid my grandmothers “let” me polish their silverware and their brass door-knockers and vases. To this day, I do subcortical work (polishing metal, shoes, ironing, etc.) during tv watching, especially during, say, the Super Bowl. It made the time go by more agreeably, and even if I didn’t win any money I’d have clean jewelry or ironed clothes. And that’s a win.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Zinc
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Brass is copper and zinc
Leo in Boise answered:
Zinc
Daniel in The City replied:
Zinc
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
The answer is zinc.
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Info: “Máscaras, comprised of three Portland music scene veterans (members of Sun Angle, Deer or the Doe, O Bruxo, Cat Hoch, Paper/Upper/Cuts, and literally dozens of others), is what happens when an off-the-cuff jam session between friends really, really works. Even in its recorded form, ‘it’s a jam with themes that live and breathe,’ the band says, ‘leaving room for the unexpected.’ The trio, comprised of Papi Fimbres (drums), Theo Craig (bass), and Carlos Segovia (guitar), plays heavy, propellant psychedelic music with surf-rock twang and mathy sensibilities. They call it ‘maximalist indigenous psych,’ and while it’s not exactly the kind of music that one would normally identify with Portland — these are, after all, three brown dudes in the whitest city in America—they have become local favorites since their low-key formation in 2013 ….”
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Frankie, the boy shitten is extremely vocal - at times it seems like he's trying to form words.
Tonight, Tuesday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'FBI', then a RERUN'FBI: Most Wanted'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Zendaya and Father James Martin.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Naomi Watts and FINNEAS.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a (R) 'This Is Us', then a FRESH'Nurses'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Drew Barrymore, Talib, and Nilüfer Yanya.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are David Duchovny, Elizabeth Olsen, Wright Thompson, and Matt Cameron.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Adam Mosseri.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'To Tell The Truth', followed by a FRESH'black-ish', then a FRESH'mixed-ish', followed by a FRESH'Big Sky'.
Jimmy Kimmel are Matthew McConaughey, Kathryn Hahn, and Rhye.
The CW offers a RERUN'Two Sentence Horror Story', followed by another RERUN'Two Sentence Horror Story', then a FRESH'Trickster'.
Faux has a FRESH'the Resident', followed by a FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE
[10:30PM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND
[1:00AM] LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE
[3:30AM] X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Dallas', then another FRESH'The Real Housewives Of Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'The Fate of The Furious', again.
History has 'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', 'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', followed by a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island: Drilling Down', then a FRESH'The Proof Is Out There', and another 'The Proof Is Out There'.
[6:00am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Gauntlet - Experiment 1205: Killer Fish
[7:45am] Summer School
[10:00am] Kingpin
[12:45pm] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[3:00pm] This Is 40
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am] Zack And Miri Make A Porno
[3:15am] Warm Bodies
[5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
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[6:00am - 10:30am] gomer pyle, u.s.m.c.
[11:00am] roots
[1:15pm] roots
[3:30pm] roots
[4:45pm] roots
[6:00pm] roots
[7:15pm] roots
[9:30pm] roots
[10:45pm] roots
[12:56am] columbo
[2:43am] columbo
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Blade II', followed by the movie 'Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen', then the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron'.
It appears that the king of surrealist filmmaking is also the king of trolling his fans on the internet.
David Lynch, the genius behind “Inland Empire,” “Blue Velvet” and “Eraserhead” teased on Sunday that he’d be making an announcement on his YouTube channel, which mostly consists of no-frills daily weather reports from the Academy Award-winning writer and director, as well as a daily segment in which Lynch pulls a bingo ball out of a jar and says the number out loud. (That’s it.)
Fans of Lynch’s work immediately began sleuthing what the big news would be from the experimental director, musician and painter, hoping for insight on whether or not Lynch would finally be candid about the possibility of “Twin Peaks” getting a fourth season. After all, the third season of the arthouse mystery returned on Showtime 27 years after its cancellation, with much of its beloved original cast and crew intact. Other fans speculated that Lynch could be announcing another studio album in the works (his last, released in 2018, was a collaborative project with Angelo Badalamenti, best known for scoring several of Lynch’s films and television shows).
On Monday morning , Lynch admirers got their definitive answer: he’s just continuing his weather reports and daily number reveals. In the YouTube video, Lynch explains that while he was initially going to pull the plug on his channel’s series, he read his subscribers’ comments and had a change of heart. His fans did get slightly trolled, but Lynch delivers a sweet message of support and gratitude for them.
Tom Llamas signed off from ABC News on Sunday, after serving as weekend anchor of World News Tonight, amid reports that he will land at NBC News.
“This will be my last broadcast at ABC News,” Llamas said on Sunday’s broadcast. “So first, thank you. Over the years it has been a pleasure spending the weekends together.”
Last week, the New York Post and Variety reported that Llamas was headed to NBC News, but no move has been announced. The network and Llamas’ representatives have not commented, but Llamas said at the end of the broadcast that “the American dream comes in many forms, and there is a big family in Miami, Florida that will tell you this is one of them, and that dream will continue.”
Llamas, who has been ABC News chief national affairs correspondent, joined ABC News in 2014, and since became Sunday anchor of World News Tonight and later anchor of both weekend editions. Among other assignments, he has interviewed Donald Trump and Melania Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Before joining the network, he was an investigative reporter and anchor at WNBC-TV in New York as well as contributing correspondent for NBC News.
Tony Bennett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease but it hasn’t quieted his legendary voice.
The singer’s wife and son reveal in the latest edition of AARP The Magazine that Bennett was first diagnosed with the irreversible neurological disorder in 2016. The magazine says he endures “increasingly rarer moments of clarity and awareness.”
Still, he continues to rehearse and twice a week goes through his 90-minute set with his longtime pianist, Lee Musiker. The magazine says he sings with perfect pitch and apparent ease.
A beloved interpreter of American standards, Bennett’s chart-topping career spans seven decades. “He’s not the old Tony anymore,” his wife, Susan, told the magazine. “But when he sings, he’s the old Tony.”
Bennett, 94, gained his first pop success in the early 1950s and enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s and became popular with younger audiences in part because of an appearance on “MTV Unplugged.” He continued recording and touring constantly, and his 2014 collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
A painting by Winston Churchill that is a piece of both political and Hollywood history is coming up for auction.
Christie’s auction house said Monday that the Moroccan landscape “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” — a gift from Churchill to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt — is being sold by Angelina Jolie next month with an estimated price of 1.5 million pounds to 2.5 million pounds ($2.1 million to $3.4 million).
The image of the 12th-century mosque in Marrakech at sunset, with the Atlas Mountains in the background, is the only painting that Britain’s World War II leader completed during the 1939-45 conflict.
He painted it after the January 1943 Casablanca Conference, where Churchill and Roosevelt planned the defeat of Nazi Germany. The two leaders visited Marrakech after the conference so that Churchill could show Roosevelt the city’s beauty.
“Roosevelt was blown away by it and thought it was incredible,” said Nick Orchard, head of Christie’s modern British art department. He said Churchill captured the view in the “wonderful, evocative painting” and gave it to Roosevelt as a memento of the trip.
Republicans including Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) have raged against Twitter and Facebook in recent months, alleging anti-conservative bias, censorship and a silencing of free speech. According to a new report from New York University, none of that is true.
Disinformation expert Paul Barrett and researcher J Grant Sims found that far from suppressing conservatives, social media platforms have, through algorithms, amplified rightwing voices, “often affording conservatives greater reach than liberal or nonpartisan content creators”.
Barrett and Sims’s report comes as Republicans up their campaign against social media companies. Conservatives have long complained that platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube show bias against the right, laments which intensified when Trump was banned from all three platforms for inciting the attack on the US Capitol which left five people dead.
The NYU study, released by the Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, found that a claim of anti-conservative bias “is itself a form of disinformation: a falsehood with no reliable evidence to support it”.
“There is no evidence to support the claim that the major social media companies are suppressing, censoring or otherwise discriminating against conservatives on their platforms,” Barrett said. “In fact, it is often conservatives who gain the most in terms of engagement and online attention, thanks to the platforms’ systems of algorithmic promotion of content.”
Former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) and the Republican Party managed to raise more than $175m during November and December, pushing donors to give up their cash to help "stop the steal," the baseless conspiracy theory that Mr Trump lost the election because of widespread voter fraud. But only $10m was spent on legal costs trying to challenge election procedures and results.
Campaign finance reports filed on Sunday shows that the largest bill of Mr Trump's campaign during the month of December was for buying ads; the company that bought Mr Trump's TV ads was paid just under $5m. Another $4.4m was spent on online ads, according to The New York Times.
The Republican National Committee ended up with over $80m in the bank after it got 25 cents for every dollar Mr Trump raised online. The RNC also didn't spend any large share of their donations on legal costs.
According to Federal Election Commission filings, the $10m the Trump campaign did spend on legal costs was about 20 per cent of what was spent on ads and further fundraising. At year's end, Mr Trump's political action committee had $31m. But that's not all of the available funds. In shared accounts between the RNC and Mr Trump's PAC, there's another $63m. Of those funds, the Trump PAC is entitled to 75 per cent, The New York Times reports.
Rudy Giuliani's firm received $63,423 for travel expenses. American Made Media Consultants was paid millions for online and text message ads. The company spent more than $700m during the 2020 campaign and Trump family members and Vice President Mike Pence sat on the board.
Beer sales in Germany were down 5.5% last year, dragged lower by lengthy closures of bars and restaurants in the coronavirus pandemic, official data showed Monday.
German-based breweries and distributors sold 8.7 billion liters (2.3 billion gallons) of beer last year, the Federal Statistical Office said. That figure doesn’t include alcohol-free beer or beer imported from outside the European Union.
German beer sales have been declining for years as a result of health concerns and other factors. They have now fallen 22.3% since 1993.
But last year’s drop was unusually sharp, and a month-by-month breakdown pointed to the impact of coronavirus restrictions. Sales were down 17.3% in April compared with a year earlier, and 14.1% in November.
Bars and restaurants in Germany were closed from March until May, and have been closed again since the beginning of November as part of the country’s current second lockdown. Major events and festivals that would usually consume large amounts of beer also have been canceled.
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