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2 I BROOrLY'~ AC.t.DE'-Y OF I~USIC I '.OVEMBER 1968 ~ • • • • 0 • • • c • • • 0 $ 0 ~ • • • • • • • • 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ABRAHAM. • • • • • • = • •.. • c: • 0 Cft • • • • • • • • .lUST • • • FUR 0 • • • THE • FUN OF IT That' s the new fur feeling whooping it up in flip 'n flirty flapper coats ... doing the menswear thing in mink gill ... or simply getting a kick out of a little lamb. It's an ex- citing new sensation for the young-at-heart ... now at A&S. • • • • • • • • • • " ••• 0 •• •• • ••••••••••••••••••• • ••••••• BROOKLYN ACADEMY O F MUSIC I NOVE MBE R 1968 / 3 Festival of Dance 68-69 Sunday Matinee, November 24, 1968 Subscription Performance The Brooklyn Academy of Music presents The Paul Taylor Dance Company with Paul Taylor Bettie de Jong Daniel Williams Carolyn Adams Jane Kosminsky Eileen Cropley Janet Arran Cliff Keuter Karla Wolfangle Senta Driver 1 John Nightingale Choreography by Paul Taylor Orchestra Conductor: Simon Sadoff Lighting by Jennifer Tipton The Paul Taylor Dance Company's participation in Festival of Dance 68·69 is made possible by grants from the Ford Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. The unauthorized use of photographic or recording equipment in this theatre is strictly prohibited. (For program notes see pages 7, 11 and 14.) 4 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC NOVEMBER 1968 First night excitement 200 times each year! 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Longl'l voy.tgcs of •10 and 17 .llld meet lntt'tn.llion.tl .S.tftt\ '-.t.tnd.trds for 1 da\ . Ctc,Jl liners of t\\"o t~ pes designed to tH'\\ :-hips dcn·lopcd in 1)(,() .tnd meet the 19(>(> accommodate in luxury no mote th.tn 11 7 .llld ftrt' s<tkt) rcquitt'nll'llts. 300 p.tssengt't s. P.lSSt'llgt•r cargo vcssds oft" o t:R.,\C'I. Ll.:-\1', 31Q l'uhlic I t·d~n Building sizt• ''ith SIMciot ts -.t.Jtcrooms for just S"' ot lndrpcndence Snu Ht', l'hil,Hit'lpln.l, !',\. 19106 Go w1th Grace- to the Canbbean and South Amenca. BRO OKLYN ACADEMY OF M USIC I NOVEMBER 1968 / 5 DANCE IN BROOKLYN The month of November is an auspi and has established itself as one of cious one for the Academy of Music. the major patrons of the art. In the space of five weeks five modern-dance companies will give If November is modern-da nce twenty-eight performances in the month at the Academy, then Decem Opera House. This is the beginning ber is decidedly classical-dance of New York's most ambitious month. From December 10 through modern-dance season in history, and January 5 the highly praised Ameri it is beginning in Brooklyn. Later in can Ballet Theatre will be dancing the season four more weeks of in the Opera House. Th is spectacu modern dance will be given at the lar troupe, which just completed a Billy Rose Theatre in Manhattan as gala season last summer at the part of Festival of Dance 68-69. The Metro;Jolitan Opera House as part of Festival is produced jointly by the Lincoln Center's Festival '68, will Academy, Harvey Lichtenstein, di present thirty-two performances of rector and Th eatre 1969, Edward the great ballets of Western civiliza Albee and Ri chard Barr, directors. tion. The first week will be devoted to the company's "Swan Lake," described by the New York Times as The twenty-eight Brooklyn per "without . exception the best formances wil l include four revivals, "Swan Lake" in the world." On four world premieres and four New Wednesday, December 18, the world York premieres. The companies of premiere of a new ballet cho Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, reographed by Michael Smuin to Erick Hawkins, Paul Taylor and Mozart's " Cassation no. 1 in G Alwin Nikolais will participate. major" will be danced by the com pany. Christmas week will provide a Festival of Dan ce 68-69 is partially special treat for chi ldren and their underwritten by grants from the adult escorts-eight performances of Ford Foundation and the New York a new production of "Coppelia." An State Council on the Arts. In an other highlight of the Brooklyn nouncing its grant, W. McNeil Lowry, season will be a revival of "Miss Ford Foundation vice president for Julie" featuring Carla Fracci and the Humanities and the Arts, sa id, Erick Bruhn. Miss Fracci and Mr. "Although the Foundation has not Bruhn as guest artists with the com been able to assume the continuing pany will also appea r in the pas de support of mdividual modern-dance deux from "Flower Festival at Gen companies, 1t is glad to respond to zano" and in " Giselle," which they a recurrent theme in all lea ding danced to critica l acclaim at Lincoln dancer-choreographers - their hope Cen ter in July. for a concentrated program on major stages." The New York State Council All told the American Ba llet on the Arts has made freq uent Th ea tre wi II give New York fow grants to promote modern dance glorious weeks of dance !:~ 8roo l<ly ~1 6 I BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968 Abraham and Straus Abraham and Straus. A&S. Whether you spell it out or use the initials you're talking about one of the best. For years Abraham and Straus has lead the way in Brooklyn, setting an example for the city and the nation in its involvement in civic and community affairs. It might be a fish fry in Prospect Park or an advertisement in the New York Ti mes for the local Brooklyn art show. It all adds up to concern. We at the Academy are especially grateful to A&S for its interest and assistance in our programs and goals. This support is invaluable to us and the Brooklyn community. No doubt you've seen those great A&S ads saluting the Academy. This time it's our turn to salute back. Bravo, A&S, bravo! BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1968 / 7 I would like to make it clear from the start that these dances are primarily meant to be a kind of food for the eye. If they evoke dramatic images and riddles, the key to their solution lies not so much in the brain, but in the senses and the eye of the spectator. It was not my intention to present literary messages, although certain dances here have as their focal point a common subject with certain writings. But still, my "message," as Humphrey Bogart once sa id, "is nothing you cou ld send by Western Union." I can not say I have any revolutionary theories about dance. I am proud of my dance inheritance and the license which American dance has given me: the freedom to do whatever kinds of dances I feel are worth doing. Of course there is the aggrava ting and inescapable debt I owe to my teachers and mentors - Graham, Balanchine, Cunningham, Tudor, as we ll as others of my own generation. Most of all, my debt is to the dancers of my company, for they are the vitamins and the marrow, the very essence of this eye food we offer. -Pau l Taylor (Continued o .1 page 11 ) 8 BROOKLYN /.CADEMY OF MUSI C I NOVEMBER 1968 We can do it because we know There's only Brooklyn. Ve've been serving the banking needs of Brooklynites for one way more than 60 years. And ou r 45 of Manufacturers fices cover the Borough from end to end. Thafs more than any other bank. Hanover lanufacturers Hanover offers ove r 80 of the most convenient banking serves your ser1ices including savings and check ing accounts ... personal and auto banking needs loans ... safe deposit facilities . .. and many more. in Brooklyn With all this going for us ... who ... and that's knows Brooklyn better? • . it 's good to have a great bank behind you BETTER. MANUFACTURERS lVT H ANOVER TRUST l.:rJ. ·~ember federal Oepos1t Insurance Corporat1on BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I NOVEMBER 1969 / 9 The Brooklyn Academy of Music DIRECTORY OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES Box Office Special Academy Buses Ticket booth in Main Lobby Express direct from Manhattan to the with 3 windows Academy. Returns 15 minutes after con e! us ion of performance.