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...Monte Carlo, is also a witty essay on sexual stereotypes. Perhaps even more than Balanchine, she loves Fred Astaire. A passage describing his partnership with Ginger Rogers could stand as well for Croce's writing about dance: "Passion-the missing element in just about every 'sexy' duet that has been attempted since- is usually confused with emoting or going primitive. With Astaire and Rogers, it's a matter of total professional dedication; they do not give us emotions, they give us dances, and the more beautifully they dance, the more powerful the spell." -Martha Duffy
...bass at his disposal, musical director and piantist Dan Ullman achieves a surprising spectrum of moods with the score. Except for the touching ballad "Try to Remember," the songs are musically undistinguished. Still, the musical numbers are the strong points of the show. Matt and Luisa's closing duet, staged with admirable restraint, nearly redeems the dialogue that precedes it--and it would completely if Schmidt and Jones didn't feel obligated to insert El Gallo at the end with another substanceless speech...
...orchestra's solemn thunder. Chan played with technical elan but a rather lifeless tone that occasionally made it hard to distinguish him from the rest of the orchestra. But he was more in command of the languorous Adagio which followed. This exquisite lamentation is less a dialogue than a duet, with the solo instrument soaring and flickering above the yearning orchestral line. Chan chose to be restrained rather than impassioned: his cool and liquid voicing, though played with enormous suppleness and grace, was if anything too emotionally detached. On the other hand, the orchestra was all the more poignant...
...harpsicord to Carter's short-and-to-the-point solos. Carter, who is now one of the top recording bassists, also plays on Tyner's "Fly With The Wind" and "Supertrios." The latter is not as uniformly strong an album as "Trident," but does include an excellent Tyner-Carter duet on Ellington's classic tune, "Preludes to a Kiss...
...framework some numbers are strong enough to stand on their own. In "Bird Lament" a woman sings of the sadness of a bird, bringing herself and the audience to the point of tears without any movement or human language. "Are You With Me" is a beautiful blues number, a duet for voice and piano about committment in love. The most exciting song is "The Dance," a rousing gypsy song that slides back and forth from an intellectual consideration of an existential decision to the simply joy of experiencing the alternatives through stillness and movement: "If the choice...