Word: flamencoco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program began with Roberto Gerhard's Alegrias (a suite from the ballet Divertissement Flamencoco). It is tempting to dismiss this piece as one of the best warm-up exercises since Czerny, but that would not be entirely fair. Gerhard, a native of Catalonia, has written an incoherent suite but good ballet music, it contains some pleasant touches, as in the use of the piano. Since, however, the HRO lacks a corps de ballet, one wonders what Alegrias was doing on the program...
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