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...second half of the program consisted of Maurice Ravel’s ballet Daphnis and Chloe, performed in its entirety. This is yet another BSO specialty; former music directors Koussevitsky and Charles Munch conducted the Second Suite from the ballet a total of 224 times between 1925 and 1965. Although the Second Suite (Part Three) is an audience favourite, some of the best music is from the first two parts, such as the opening and “Danse Religieuse,” and Chloe’s “Dance of Supplication,” a meticulously written...
...Marsha Bristow Bostick of Columbus remembers noticing with alarm last summer that her three-year-old daughter Betsy had memorized an awful lot of TV commercials. The toddler announced that she planned to take ballet lessons, followed by bride lessons. That helped inspire her mother, then 37, to quit her $150,000-a-year job as a marketing executive. She and her husband, Brent, a bank officer, decided that Betsy and their infant son Andrew needed more parental attention if they were going to develop the right sort of values. Marsha explained, ''I found myself wondering, How wealthy...
After the Chinese F-8 fighter damaged the Navy's EP-3, its 24-member crew went into a destructive ballet - carefully choreographed in advance and practiced numerous times - to ensure the Chinese takeout from this intelligence windfall from the sky would be minimal, Pentagon officials...
...same mouthy iconoclast he always was--only now his once controversial work has become the gold standard of creativity for a new generation of dancers, choreographers and critics. Charter company members like Tina Fehlandt are currently teaching the gospel of St. Mark to such prestigious ensembles as the American Ballet Theatre and the San Francisco Ballet, both of which commissioned new pieces from Morris this season. He is the subject of a just published coffee-table anthology of essays and interviews about L'Allegro. "Some of my dancers first saw the company on pbs when they were 11 and dreamed...
Great choreographers have a way of spreading their wings in middle age. When he was 44, George Balanchine launched the New York City Ballet; within a decade, he was the dominant force in American ballet, making his art form a vital part of the cultural landscape. Now, with the opening of his new dance center, Morris, the most prodigiously gifted choreographer of the post-Balanchine era, has a similarly secure institutional base from which to lead modern dance into the 21st century...