Word: ballets
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...Vosgerchian, a late music professor. “There is a still a surreal feeling,” Everett said. “I am very honored to be associated with her.” Everett, a bass trombonist, has had an accomplished career, playing with the Bolshoi Ballet, the Boston Pops, and the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, and Tommy Dorsey. But the lure of teaching brought the Grammy-nominated conductor to Harvard in 1971 to serve as director of the University band. “Teaching allowed me to balance my career as a professional musician with...
Shakespeare has undeniably stood the test of time, but the question remains: Can he stand the test of the ballet? This Valentine’s Day, an endless sea of couples flooded the Wang Theatre for the opening night of the Boston Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet,” featuring original staging by the legendary South African choreographer John Cranko and Prokofiev’s stunning score. Despite a slow and emotionally unengaged beginning, the performance eventually redeems itself and proves that Shakespeare’s famous “star-cross?...
...still make the rent shooting a TV spot during the day. Meanwhile, a critical mass of institutions of higher education - the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Parsons School of Design, the Julliard School of Music, the School of American Ballet - are constantly training new cadres...
Struan Vaz and Paige Hill emerged from a performance of the Nutcracker by Ballet Austin last month and were assaulted by photographers and reporters who pursued them for several blocks, snapping shots and asking personal questions. Amid the blinding flashbulbs and rapid-fire interrogation, the pair held their composure, but the attention overwhelmed them a little. "A couple of times, Paige tried to run away," says Tania Cowher, one of the paparazzi on the scene that night in the Texas capital, "so we ran along with her." They chased the couple all the way to the nightclub Qua, where...
...Music Hall's success wasn't lost on New York's merchant-entrepreneurs. Today the city is clogged with live entertainment for the holidays: Lincoln Center alone has two offerings - the New York City Ballet's annual production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker (which ends Sunday) and the yearly visit of the Big Apple Circus (through Jan. 13). Of the shows that say, "I like New York in Yule," we've chosen three - the newest, the oldest and one in between...