Article: Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton.

by Julie Kavanagh (Faber and Faber, London, $50.00)

The career of Frederick Ashton (1904-88) bridged some of the most fruitful periods in British artistic and social history. Ashton hobnobbed with aristocracy and with the Bright Young Things and inherited the last vestiges of the Diaghilev legacy through his associations with Ninette de Valois and with Leonide Massine, one of his formidable rival choreographers in the Britain of the late thirties and early forties. Into the mix were thrown his early childhood in Ecuador and Peru (where he first saw Pavlova, who became a lifelong obsession), his work in opera and revue, his love for English literature fostered by a ...

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