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Best of the Bolshoi

Title: Best of the Bolshoi [videorecording] / presented by Tolvision of America and Matthew Fox ; directed by Charles S. Dubin ; produced by Ted Mills.
Publication: 1959.

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Description

3 videocassettes (117 min.) : sd., b&w NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Arnold W. Saltzman.

Uniform Title

Bashkir dance (Choreographic work : Messerer)
Bulgarian dances (Choreographic work : Kamaletdinov)
Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
Flames of Paris (Choreographic work : Vaĭnonen)
Flight of the bumble bee (Choreographic work : Varkovi︠t︡skiĭ)
Giselle (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Coralli and Perrot)
Mélodie (Choreographic work : Messerer)
Moszkowski waltz (Choreographic work : Lapauri)
Raymonda (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Gorski and Petipa, M)
Red poppy (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)
Shurale (Choreographic work : ︠I︡Akobson)
Spartacus (Choreographic work : Moiseev)
Spring waters (Choreographic work : Messerer)
Stone flower (Choreographic work : Grigorovich)
Swan lake (Choreographic work : Gorski after Ivanov and Petipa, M)
Taras Bulba (Choreographic work : Zakharov)
Walpurgis night (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Credits (note)

Executive producer: Paul White.

Event (note)

Telecast version of 1962, WHCT, Hartford. Originally filmed in Los Angeles in 1959 during the Bolshoi Ballet's first American tour.

Contents

Walpurgis night: excerpt / choreography, Lavrovski ; music, Gounod ; danced by Maya Plisetskaya and Vladimir Vasiliev, with Maya Samokhvalova, Nina Chistova, and Alexander Lapauri.
Mélodie / choreography, Messerer ; music Gluck ; danced by Marina Kondratieva and Yuri Zhdanov.
Spartacus: Duel of the gladiators / choreography, Moiseyev ; music, Khachaturian ; danced by Yaroslav Sekh and Vladimir Levashev.
Waltz in C minor / music, Chopin ; danced by Galina Ulanova and Yuri Zhdanov.
Bashkir dance / choreography, Messerer ; music, traditional ; danced by Shamil Yagudin.
Swan lake: Act II excerpts / choreography, Gorski ; music, Tchaikovsky ; danced by Maya Plisetskaya and Nicolai Fadeyechev.
Bulgarian dances / choreography, Kamaletdinov, music, traditional ; danced by six men.
Raymonda: excerpt / choreography, Gorski and Petipa ; music, Glazunov ; danced by Maya Plisetskaya.
Red poppy: Dance of the Chinese acrobat / choreography, Lavrovski ; music, Gliere ; danced by Esfandiyar Kashani.
Flames of Paris: Pas de deux / choreography, Vainonen ; music, Asafiev ; danced by Ekaterina Maximova and Gennadi Lediakh.
Giselle: Act II excerpts / choreography, Lavrovski after Coralli, Perrot and Petipa ; music, Adam ; danced by Nina Chistova, Maya Samokhvalova, and corps de ballet.
Stone flower: Gypsy dance / choreography, Grigorovich ; music, Prokofiev ; danced by Vladimir Levashev and corps de ballet.
Moszkowski waltz / choreography, Lapauri ; music, Moszkowski ; danced by Raissa Struchkova and Alexander Lapauri.
Chopiniana (Les Sylphides): excerpt / choreography, Fokin ; music, Chopin.
Waltz, from the motion picture Spring / music, Dunayevsky ; danced by Lyudmila Bogomolova and Stanislav Vlasov.
Flight of the bumblebee / choreography, Varkovitski ; music, Rimski-Korsakov ; danced by Natalia Filippova and Alexander Radunski.
Stone flower: Pas de deux / choreography, Grigorovich ; music, Prokofiev ; danced by Maya Plisetskaya and Vladimir Vasiliev.
Taras Bulba: Gopak / choreography, Zakharov ; music, Soloviev-Sedoi ; danced by Georgi Panieff.
Spartacus: Dance of the three warriors / choreography, Moiseyev ; music, Khachaturian ; danced by Esfandiyar Kashani, Shamil Yagudin, and Lev Evdokimov.
Spring waters pas de deux / choreography, Messerer ; music, Rachmaninoff ; danced by Lyudmila Bogomolova and Stanislav Vlasov.
Shurale: Act II excerpt / choreography, Iakobson ; music, Iarullin ; danced by Marina Kondratieva, Vladimir Vasiliev, Vladimir Levashev, and corps de ballet.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5187

OCLC

NYPY867014145-F

Title

Best of the Bolshoi [videorecording] / presented by Tolvision of America and Matthew Fox ; directed by Charles S. Dubin ; produced by Ted Mills.

Imprint

1959.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Telecast version of 1962, WHCT, Hartford. Originally filmed in Los Angeles in 1959 during the Bolshoi Ballet's first American tour.

Credits

Executive producer: Paul White.

Performer

Danced by the Bolshoi Ballet.

Narrator: Moss Hart.

Local Subject

Ballet in television. Best of the Bolshoi.

Added Author

︠I︡Agudin, Shamil', dancer.

Maksimova, Ekaterina, dancer.

Lediakh, Gennadi, 1928- dancer.

Filippova, Natalʹ︠i︡a, dancer.

Radunskiĭ, Aleksandr Ivanovich, 1912-1982, dancer.

Chistova, Nina, dancer.

Samokhvalova, Maĭ︠i︡a, dancer.

Kondrat'eva, Marina, dancer.

Zhdanov, ︠I︡Uriĭ Timofeevich, 1925-1986, dancer.

Struchkova, Raisa, dancer.

Pliset︠s︡kai︠a︡, Maĭi︠a︡, 1925-2015, dancer.

Kashani, Esfandi︠i︡ar, dancer.

Vasilʹev, Vladimir, 1940- dancer.

Levashev, Vladimir, 1923- dancer.

Sekh, ︠I︡Aroslav, 1930- dancer.

Evdokimov, Lev, dancer.

Bogomolova, L︠i︡udmila, dancer.

Vlasov, Stanislav, dancer.

Fadeechev, Nikolaĭ Borisovich, 1933- dancer.

Paneev, Georgiĭ, dancer.

Ulanova, Galina Sergeevna, 1910-1998, dancer.

Hart, Moss, 1904-1961, narrator.

Messerer, Asaf, 1903- choreographer.

Kamaletdinov, Mansur, choreographer.

Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942, choreographer.

Vaĭnonen, V., choreographer.

Varkovi︠t︡skiĭ, Vladimir Aleksandrovich, 1916-1974, choreographer.

Lavrovskiĭ, Leonid Mikhaĭlovich, 1905-1967, choreographer.

Lapauri, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, 1926- choreographer, dancer.

︠I︡Akobson, Leonid, choreographer.

Moiseev, Igorʹ, 1906- choreographer.

Grigorovich, ︠I︡Uriĭ Nikolaevich, 1927- choreographer.

Gorskiĭ, Aleksandr Alekseevich, 1871-1924, choreographer.

Zakharov, Rostislav, choreographer.

Mills, Ted, film producer.

Dubin, Charles, film director.

Bolʹshoĭ teatr Rossii. Balet.

Added Title

Bashkir dance (Choreographic work : Messerer)

Bulgarian dances (Choreographic work : Kamaletdinov)

Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)

Flames of Paris (Choreographic work : Vaĭnonen)

Flight of the bumble bee (Choreographic work : Varkovi︠t︡skiĭ)

Giselle (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Coralli and Perrot)

Mélodie (Choreographic work : Messerer)

Moszkowski waltz (Choreographic work : Lapauri)

Raymonda (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ after Gorski and Petipa, M)

Red poppy (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)

Shurale (Choreographic work : ︠I︡Akobson)

Spartacus (Choreographic work : Moiseev)

Spring waters (Choreographic work : Messerer)

Stone flower (Choreographic work : Grigorovich)

Swan lake (Choreographic work : Gorski after Ivanov and Petipa, M)

Taras Bulba (Choreographic work : Zakharov)

Walpurgis night (Choreographic work : Lavrovskiĭ)

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5187

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