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Photographs at the reception commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Benesh Institute of Choreology with Deborah and Charlotte MacMillan, Ninette de Valois, Monica Parker, Leo Kersley and others

The BBC made a film as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of The Royal Ballet and the preparation and first night of Isadora was included in the programme. The material comprises

1. Four page typed Draft Rough Schedule (2) for BBC Filming: 50th Anniversary Film with details of Kenneth MacMillan's involvement
2. 19 page typed Filming Schedule for BBC Film Marking 50th Anniversary of The Royal Ballet. Pages i-iii give Names and Telephone Numbers, pages 1-16 give the full schedule. With a handwritten covering note from Colin Nears, Director, on BBC headed notepaper, who has marked the various sequences that involve Kenneth MacMillan, 9 Jan 1981. With envelope

The material in this file covers performances of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Elite Syncopations at the Bayerische Staatsoper. It contains correspondence from Ronald [Hynd] asking Kenneth MacMillan to stage the ballet in Munich, thanking him for attending the premiere, and explaining why he is leaving as Artistic Director, 7 Nov 1984 - 15 May 1986. There is material relating to the legal dispute arising from whether the musicians should be obliged to perform on stage, including a letter (in German) from Wolfgang Sawallisch, Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper, and from Kathleen Quinn, News Assistant at the New York Times, with copies of a press release from the Bavarian State Opera and the German Orchestra Association, 30 Mar 1988 and 29 Mar 1988. There are two press cuttings about the dispute and a letter from an American academic asking for information, 28 Sep 1992

One typed letter from Mary Clarke to Kenneth MacMillan apologising for in error in her review of The Sleeping Beauty in the March issue of Ballet Today, 7 Mar 1952

Photographs of Ballet Rambert in Mephisto Waltz and Czernyana with Sally Gilmour, Robert Harrold, Elisabeth Schooling, Michael Boyston, Frank Staff and others

A typed letter from Alicia Alonso, Director of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba, asking Kenneth MacMillan if he could create a ballet for the 30th anniversary of the Company at the end of October 1978, on letter headed paper and signed by Alicia Alonso, 26 Jan 1978