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... pair of suites, "Pelleas et Melisande" and "Shylock," by French composer Gabriel Fauré. "Rubies," which follows, is danced to Igor Stravinsky's "Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra." And the finale, "Diamonds," employs all but the first movement of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3. Balanchine developed a keen interest in precious stones through his acquaintance with the noted jeweler Claude Arpels. Nevertheless, despite using jewels for his...
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Bolshoi Theater Brings Balanchine's 'Jewels' to Life
4 May 2012
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times
Mixed Results as Bolshoi Theater's 'Jewels' Debuts
12 May 2012
By Raymond Stults / Special to The Moscow Times
... very first time over the May holidays, proved no exception. To its credit, however, it did manage to achieve quite respectable results in two of the work's three segments. It came as no surprise to find the Bolshoi dancers comfortably at home in "Diamonds," the "Russian" finale to "Jewels," set to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and fashioned by Balanchine with more than a nod toward the choreography of the Mariinsky Theater's great Marius Petipa, on which he was nurtured...
For the Record
23 May 2012
... that its net interest income before provisions was 2.15 billion rubles in the first three months of 2012, up from 1.36 billion rubles in the same period last year. (Reuters) Russian-Israeli commercial property developer AFI Development, controlled by diamond dealer Lev Leviev and generating much of its income from the AFIMall City shopping mall in Moskva-City, said first-quarter net profit fell to $7.9 million from $16.7 million during the same period a year ago, due to an increase in finance expenses...
In the Spotlight
18 May 2012
By Anna Malpas
.... "I just want to shout: I don't believe it!" a commentator called Marietta wrote, while another called Alina attacked her "lying." Spletnik sneered that Sobchak is simply on trend. "It's not fashionable any more to show off diamonds, dance on tables or smear black caviar on the walls of Courchevel hotels," it wrote. "Now everyone is reading poetry and trying to say clever things about eternal values." Sobchak has even let her roots grow out to be like "99...
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