Music: Duncan Dancers

Love—"one great surging, longing, unmistakable urge"—came to Isadora Duncan in Budapest in springtime. She met an actor whom in her later memoirs she called "Romeo."* Out of this awakening came a dance she improvised to Franz Schubert's gentle, tripping Moment Musical. Isadora Duncan has been dead five years, but a Manhattan audience last week gave its lustiest applause to her memory when the Moment Musical was danced once more by her adopted daughter Irma.

U. S. concertgoers have seen many "Duncan Dancers." New to the...

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