Word: divertimento
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...series of works with the intention of sending the audience to sleep. The concert, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum, is a live rendition of music selected for a Japan Airlines in-flight audio relaxation channel. The pieces, which include Schubert's Ave Maria and a Mozart Divertimento, were tested by a physician specializing in sleeping disorders and compiled into Good Sleep CD: Dreams - a hugely popular album in sleep-deprived, stressed-out Japan...
...common mistranslation of the German, it is really closer to “Songs of a Traveling Journeyman”—a tender and anguished piece, as well as Schubert’s masterful Octet, a truly epic work whose six movements are modeled after the classical Divertimento. During the compositional process, Schubert suffered from a severe, and eventually terminal, case of syphilis; shortly after the completion of the Octet he wrote to a friend: “Every night when I go to sleep I hope not to wake again, and every morning brings with...
...Nissinen’s juxtaposition of great choreographers comes to fruition as the Boston Ballet performs George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” Peter Martins’s “Distant Light,” and Balanchine’s “Divertimento.” See what all the lecturing was about. Tickets $18-$98. The Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St., Boston. 2 and 8 p.m. (800) 447-7400. Also Sunday...
...first excerpt the company presented was Balanchine’s “Divertimento No. 15,” set to music by Mozart, a composer favored by Balanchine. Dancers Larissa Ponomarenko, Carlos Molina, Kathleen Breen Combes, Tempe Ostergren, Sacha Wakelin and Rie Ichikawa brought a crisp, effervescent energy to their performance. Especially notable were Molina’s graceful, fluid transitions and jumps seeming to hover in midair...
...those who regard George Balanchine as the choreographer of the century--any century--Washington will be the place to be in September. The Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration features such masterpieces as Agon, Divertimento No. 15 and The Four Temperaments, performed by the Miami City, Pennsylvania, San Francisco and Joffrey ballet troupes. It also marks the official debut of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet Company (Sept...