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...will work flips, splits, flag waving and roman candles into the hilariously awful act she is practicing. Doing this lunatic parody of a beauty contest talent routine without onstage preparation or any chance to establish character is, for an actress, the equivalent of an operatic soprano hitting a high E-flat on her first note. Holly Hunter, who has to come on cold every night at the Manhattan Theater Club and open the show with this scene, is clearly the bravest performer currently working in New York City...
...George Balanchine's Symphonie Concertante (1947). This work has not been performed for 30 years, and survived only because it happened to have been transcribed in Labanotation (a system of symbols for preserving choreography). Symphonie Concertante is a reclaimed treasure. Set to Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat for violin, viola and orchestra, it casts two ballerinas as the solo instruments, the brilliant Gregory as the violin, the mellower Van Hamel as the viola and surrounds them with a corps tracing patterns and recombining in gentle, eloquent classical phrases. Designer Theoni V. Aldredge has fashioned what must...
...that make up The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bach unfolded a serene meditation in the key of C over a placid, unchanging rhythmic pattern. To set the proper bardic tone for his mythological Ring of the Nibelung operatic saga, Wagner spun the entire Prelude of Das Rheingold from a single E-flat major triad, embellishing a bass note into a torrent of arpeggios to depict the primal nature of the Rhine. Ravel built Bolero around a sinuous, reiterated melody, clad in shifting orchestral colors, which only once lurches briefly away from its home...
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 (Classics for Pleasure). The noble E-flat symphony gets a refined reading from Vernon Handley and the London Philharmonic...
...musical cause célèbre. Pogorelich's first U.S. record includes wayward but ultimately persuasive interpretations of the Chopin Funeral March sonata and six shorter pieces. Lightning tempos in some works, such as the C-sharp-minor Scherzo, display his formidable technique, while the slow E-flat Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2, allows the pianist to show off his ravishing, sensuous tone...