Word: allegros
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...also notes the rippling serenity of Kyra Nichols, who sometimes seems unaware of the audience. Most of all, Robbins shows off Ib Andersen. Since he has four new roles, this might even be called an Ib Andersen Festival. He is an elegant, ardent dramatic dancer who has the clear allegro technique that the "Balanchine style" needs. If Robbins does not test him (as Balanchine does in Mozartiana), he makes Piano Pieces a study of the protean Andersen in motion...
...haired, built for both speed and comfort. She is wearing a black body stocking, and the bedroom, the bed, her nails and the rubies in her ears are red. "Have some champagne," she says in her silverbell voice. Apples is Dutch; she speaks six languages. She lives her life allegro; she makes between $100,000 and $200,000 a year and needs it all. She lives on take-out Chinese food, and her kitchen, as it develops, is equipped with two plastic cups and one plastic fork...
...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
...like the largo third movement and allegro non troppo finale is to have a good memory for themes and variations. The melodies are for the most part atonal and especially complex when juxtaposed in syncopation, one instrument playing a melody on the beat, and another playing the same theme a beat or two behind...
...execute all his cadenzas of flight, the Royal still has a good addition to its repertory. Rhapsody is valuable for the members of the corps because they must stretch into an expansive, lyrical style while dancing complicated steps. The ballerina part is lightly glamorous, but it requires a whipping allegro technique. Ashton, as usual, has thought of the company as well as the star...