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- DIED. Ruth Page, 92, pioneering ballet dancer and
- choreographer; in Chicago. Page, whose distinctly American works
- include the first jazz ballet (Blues, 1928), the first
- commissioned ballet score by Aaron Copland (Hear Ye! Hear Ye!,
- 1934) and the once censored Frankie and Johnny (1938), also
- staged Soviet dancer Rudolf Nureyev's U.S. debut in 1962.
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