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For Peter Martins, Past Is No Yoke; Carrying Balanchine's Torch Proves Vexing for the NYCB Director [ Corrected: 03/02/04 ]
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In the costume shop of the New York City Ballet hang some of the
only tangible remnants of past dance performances: the duchess silk
satin gowns of George Balanchine's romantic "Liebeslieder Waltzer,"
the stiff, pert, somewhat dingy red-and-white tutu of his
"Tarantella" duet.
For the sake of these and other well-worn confections, the
wardrobe staff wages a constant war against time. Over the years, as
colors drain away from the original creations, remaking them in the
original palette is one of the shop's chief projects.
What is happening to the costumes is a metaphor for what some say
is ...
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Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). (The History of Mineralogy: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; Werner is considered by many to be the father of...Erzgebirge since at least the early 1500's. Werner's father was the official Inspector of...minerals. By the age of nine the young Werner was already building his own mineral collection...
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The sclerometer and the determination of the hardness of minerals.
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the "external characteristics of minerals" (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible by the senses, such...
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THE SCLEROMETER and the DETERMINATION OF THE HARDNESS OF MINERALS
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record
; ...developed by the Freiberg mineralogist and geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817). In his work on the "external characteristics of minerals" (1774), Werner used the criteria discernible by the senses, such...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Montezuma II, Aztec emperor, killed 1520; William Oughtred, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule, 1660; Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist, 1817; Charles Jules Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, hanged 1882; Dr Lee De Forest...
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The Schloss Freudenstein terra mineralia collection: fabulous new mineral exhibit opens in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany.
Magazine article from: Rocks & Minerals
; ...Massanek is curator of the new terra mineralia Museum as well as the Freiberg mineralogical collection in the Abraham Gottlob Werner Building, only a few blocks from the Castle Freudenstein. Dr. Jutta Petzold-Herrmann is responsible for the...
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