Russia’s Cultural Stunner: St. Petersburg
April 22, 2020
I miss the Soviet hammer and sickle. When I first visited Russia – then called the Soviet Union – the symbol was everywhere, along with those treacly-romantic billboards of Vladimir Lenin reading to children: the patriarch ...
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Local Jewels
October 24, 2019
It wasn’t breakfast at Tiffany’s, but a stroll through Van Cleef & Arpels that is credited with inspiring George Balanchine’s only three-act, non-narrative ballet Jewels. At its New York City Ballet premiere in 1967, Jewels ...
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