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...UNUSUAL for small regional dance companies to generate the same level of excitement that groups like the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater generally bring. It is all the more noteworthy, then, when one of the lesser known companies presents something truly original and creative...
...Boston Ballet is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary season with just such a project--the revival of a revolutionary piece of dance and music called Carmina Burana. The work is a collection of poems celebrating spring, the bawdiness of tavern life and the complications of love, probably written by students, scholars and monks who roamed Western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. Carl Orff, a German composer, set the poems to music in 1937 and the score now includes choral and solo singing in Latin, German and French...
...echoes with conversation, the tinkle of silverware and the beat of live music. Pushcarts purvey historic photos and imported tin boxes painted with the images of Washington buildings. Weary sightseers can relax at dozens of tables. On a large stage in the atrium, the Evans Co. presents free entertainment-ballet, jazz and puppet shows-seven days and six evenings a week. Twenty-five shops display items such as lingerie, confections and wooden toys. The Pavilion provides gastronomic relief from the bland fare at the Department of Commerce cafeteria down the avenue. There are five restaurants and 16 fast-food counters...
From his seat in the middle of the orchestra, Roxy himself, surrounded by confusion, secretaries, yes-men, busboys with food, had spent six weeks directing great groups of choristers and dancers. There was a dancing chorus of 48 "Roxyettes;" a ballet of 80; a chorus of 100 voices...
...will outlast a Salieri, art forms themselves now change rapidly. Readers in 1923 had never heard a movie actor talk, never imagined a television screen. Technology kept bringing new transformations: long-playing records, high-speed cameras, videotape equipment. Not only arts changed but audiences as well. Local orchestras, opera, ballet and theater companies proliferated. So did the electronic babel (sitcom disc-jockey disco-rock singing commercial) that now seems an inescapable fact of life. In the age of the mass audience, more people could watch a Shakespeare play on TV than had ever seen it in all previous performances; more...