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Re: 1916 Ballets Russes clarinetist?

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2010-07-24 11:42

Chuck, thanks very much for this advice. I'll follow up on Monday. I hadn't thought of trying Lincoln Center, even though I've worked there! -- but yes, they might have some archives from the Century Theatre. The Century (torn down a few years later) wasn't owned or even leased by the Met, but the Met did help travelling companies make arrangements there and elsewhere when the old Opera House was unavailable.

Ran into variant spellings for the Ballets Russes concertmaster, btw -- his name may have been Nahun or Nahan (not Nathan) Franko. I don't know for sure yet whether he was Russian, though I think he was, but the early 20th century spellings for the Russian names transliterated from Cryllic alphabet are so non-standardized that they vary from one U. S. city's programs to another city's within the same tour.

The reason why I want the info is to establish how my 1916 clarinet playing character communicates with a Ballets Russes clarinet player. The character's native language is English, he doesn't speak Russian, but he's fluent in French. If I have them speak French as their common language, sure as anything somebody'll come up with proof (when it's too late for me to do anything about it...) that the Ballets Russes' first clarinetist was an American who couldn't speak a word of anything but English!

Lelia
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