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...they are and so they will be, touring 60 cities in four months with an international ensemble of young skaters. Combining the invention of the Broadway musical, the grace of ballet and the speed of steel sliding across a smooth surface, they are zestfully -- and often wittily -- redefining that tired old branch of show business, the ice revue...
...adept at writing for the symphony orchestra. Zwilich's First Symphony is a big, bold, brassy work, propelled by insistent, driving rhythms, while her Celebration is a rattling shout reminiscent at times of Shostakovich. Harbison's dark, looming Ulysses' Bow is the second section of a two-part Homeric ballet and displays well its composer's skill at orchestration. Although the ballet has yet to be staged, Ulysses' Bow, at least, can stand on its own as a vivid showpiece, a ten- movement suite of rare power and dramatic immediacy...
BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture; Facsimile Ballet; Fancy Free Ballet; On the Town (Three Dance Episodes). Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (Angel). Far cheerier is this disk of Bernstein excerpts. Whatever one thinks about the musical-comedy-turned -opera itself, the raucous overture to Candide remains one of its composer's most vibrant creations. The gotta- dance high spirits of the one-act ballet Fancy Free, later transformed and expanded into the Broadway show On the Town, are just as irresistible. Was this perhaps Bernstein's true calling? Lenny conducts Lenny, and both are at their best...
...projects, he makes it look so spectacularly easy. Mikhail Baryshnikov's latest undertaking is a movie called A Time to Dance, which is currently filming in Bari, Italy. The idea started when Baryshnikov went to Director Herbert Ross (The Turning Point) and proposed that they film the 19th century ballet Giselle together. Ross suggested expanding the concept to include a film-within-a-film plot about the world's greatest male dancer and the love affairs he has while filming a performance of Giselle. Baryshnikov did not find that hard to play. And when they brought the proposal to Producers...
...dance category, grant money from the council will be used to fund a revival and expansion of the ballet "Krazy Kat," which will be produced by Matthew I. Cohen '88, Claire A. Reinhardt '88, and Joy F. Sable...