Word: bache
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even though he hadn't danced onstage in nine years, Béjart decided that in the Broadway premiere of his Notre Faust, he himself would play the title role and Mephistopheles as well. Before his debut in the relentlessly athletic work, which is set to music from Bach's Mass in B-minor with frequent explosions of Argentine tango, Béjart observed: Faust is not just a role, "it's a mid-life crisis. You want to live again. You want to be young again...
...bombed-out wing of Bach Mai hospital has been left in ruins as a memorial to victims of the 1972 Christmas bombing. But there are few such deliberate reminders of the war, either in the landscape or in conversation. Posters celebrating the accuracy of rooftop antiaircraft gunners have been replaced by ones exhorting greater industrial and agricultural production. In the city's teeming central market (where dog meat is sold as a delicacy), a loudspeaker system installed ten years ago for air raid alerts and tirades against the "imperialist" enemy is now used to announce the arrival of produce...
Clough says that Carter leaves the choice of pieces to play "in my hands." She starts her boss off gently in the morning with Bach and Schumann, working up in intensity as the day progresses to Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. At night Carter is his own deejay. Among his recent choices: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor and Franck's Symphony in D Minor...
There is not much more you can say about this program; either the idea of funning around with the porno genre appeals to you or it does not. At least one short is a real gem: "Bach to Bach," with the voices of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. While the camera takes you on a guided tour of the ornaments in a New York apartment, you hear a man and a woman who have picked each other up in a bar and are now trading a series of cocktail party inanities to ward off their nervousness about the whole affair...
...following is an open letter to the Bach Society Orchestra...