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It is no surprise that the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields has become the mantra for quality on classical music radio stations across the world. Their brilliant performance at Symphony Hall last Friday is nothing if not evidence of the high standard they maintain.
The level of communication between performer and listener in gestures such as the encore to the Orchestral Suite hearken directly to the roots of Bach's music. While in Symphony Hall it is somewhat difficult to conceive of the intimate surroundings in which Bach's and Handel's music was...
DIED. TONY WILLIAMS, 51, splashy, polyrhythmic jazz drummer; of a heart attack; in Daly City, California. Tapped by Miles Davis to join his legendary quintet in 1963, Williams was a master at blending jazz with styles from blues to classical. His 1969 band, Lifetime, pioneered jazz-rock fusion.
Aditi Bagchi '99 performed the opening act, a flirtatious, intricate classical Indian dance called the bharata natyam. An astonishing meld of classical poses, swift, powerful foot and arm movements and use of the eyes and face to express emotion, Bagchi's dance also punctuated its backing music with the rhythmic...
But the heart and soul of the show of Ghungroo was the group dances. From the dandia raas, an exuberant stick dance celebrating the "divine sport" of Krishna and his milkmaids to the classical bhangra--a vibrant, joyous Punjabi dance, and an obvious favorite with the audience--the group performances...