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Vera Zorina
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Vera Zorina (real name: Brigitta Hartwig) is 21, was born in Berlin, made her professional debut there at the age of eleven. After studying dancing under famed Nicolas Legat, coach of Pavlova and Nijinsky, she played in the Reinhardt productions, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tales of Hoffmann. Quickly spotted, she was engaged for the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, which forced her to take her present Russian stage name. Spotted again by Producer Wiman, she played the Tamara Geva role in the London production of On Your Toes. Spotted there by a Goldwyn scout, she went to Hollywood, had a leading role in this year's Goldwyn Follies, is due back in Hollywood early next winter for another picture.
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From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew that the season was no great shakes esthetically. They went to Sol Hurok's ballet very largely for one little reason. That reason was a five-foot-two-inch dancer named Alicia Markova.
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Famed ballet dancer Vera Zorina died at age 84 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ms. Zorina appeared in several MGM films during the 1940s. She was married to choreographer George Balanchine during her MGM years. Ms. Zorina’s credits include "The Goldwyn Follies," "Lover Come Back," "Follow the Boys" and the documentary "That’s Dancing!"
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Lieberson, the son of former Columbia Records president Goddard Lieberson and ballerina Vera Zorina, was born in New York City. He studied music at Columbia and Brandeis universities... studying Tibetan Buddhism, a theme reflected in his works. He now lives in Santa Fe and devotes his time exclusively to composing music. Among his other compositions are three concertos and several solo pieces for pianist Peter Serkin, the concerto Six Realms for cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and the operas Ashoka's Dream and King Gesar.
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The son of the former president of Columbia Records (Goddard Lieberson) and ballerina Vera Zorina, Lieberson studied at Columbia and Brandeis Universities and taught at Harvard University. Since 1994, he has devoted himself exclusively to composition.
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In 1946, Zorina married Lieberson, who died in 1977. They had two sons, Jonathan, a philosophy teacher, who died in 1989, and the composer Peter Lieberson. She is survived by Wolfe, her son Peter and three granddaughters.
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