Word: allegro
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...Molto Allegro...
...country, having performed for more than 300,000 people in 44 states. Its members draw from the nation's best: the New York City Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, and others. On Friday night the program will feature "Tom Dula," a bluegrass folk ballad, "Allegro Brillante," choreographed by George Balanchine, and "Valley," choreographed by Lar Lubovitch. On Saturday night works of Michael Uthoff (the Hartford Ballet's artistic director), including his evocative interpretation of the "Prodigal Son," will be presented...
...strictly allegro con brio as Pianist Vladimir Horowitz celebrated his 74th birthday by hustling to the floor of a Manhattan discotheque. "Sometimes when a performer gets older, he sees only older people in the audience, but I see only young people and that's why I like to go to discos," says Horowitz, who wears earplugs to keep the volume down. Usually Horowitz watches the action from the sidelines, but birthdays are something else. "That was my first gift for my birthday, to be able to dance like that," he gloated, after stomping away with Wife Wanda...
...ALLEGRO FINAL movement sounded particularly stirring. The orchestra played the fanfare and the subdued march of the cellos with full sensitivity, and Yannatos brought out each of the separate instrumental sections as well as the Bohemian flavor with great clarity. The ending, in which the horns lead an exciting theme involving the entire orchestra, revealed the same mastery of dynamics, color and suggestive instrumentation that the orchestra showed throughout the evening and that made the concert especially enjoyable and provocative for the listener...
Martins is referring to Ashley's scrupulousness in performance, but she is candid in other ways. She knows that her technique is famous. "From the waist down, I'm terrific," she observes. "My legs just know what to do. But my allegro dancing wasn't enough. I had a kind of breakthrough a year ago. But my arms can still be lifeless. My head is not always right." She has been teaching her role in Emeralds to Ghislaine Thesmar, a French ballerina who is as elegant in a Gallic way as Ashley is in her very American...