With Pavlova Round World

Theodore Stier's With Pavlova Round the World is one of the

few first-hand accounts of what is was like to work with the

great ballerina. Stier began to conduct for Pavlova in 1910

and was her musical director for the next 16 years, during

which time, as he proudly relates, he conducted 3,650 of

her performances. During this time his relationship with

Pavlova gradually changed from employer and employee

into a close friendship.

The book brings Pavlova alive with Stier's anecdotes and

insights into her life and work. Not so much a chronological

biography, it is more a series of episodes which illuminate

Pavlova as a person as well as a great dancer.