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“Once, at a Border: Aspects of Stravinsky.” Kultur. $69.95 (two cassettes). This ambitious biographical tribute to the late composer contains cherishable interviews with such luminaries as George Balanchine, Nadia Boulanger, Nicholas Nabokov, Marie Rambert and Robert Craft, along with generous archival footage of (and commentary by) Stravinsky himself. The performance excerpts are generally excellent (the conductors include David Atherton, Vladimir Fedoseyev and Simon Preston), but the choice of what music to include and what to ignore is often downright peculiar. Worse, the sequences relating to Stravinsky’s ballets are full of factual mistakes and misleading visuals--with, for instance, dismal 1962 choreography for “Le Sacre du Printemps” presented as if it were the original 1913 version. Entertaining but unreliable. Information: (800) 458-5887. ** 1/2