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Rochberg's Confidence Man challengingly evokes an older idiom...
...grand heritage, the modern classics (among them Apollo, Orpheus, Agon, Symphony in Three Movements) that Balanchine has set to Stravinsky over a period of 50 years. Balanchine worked out key elements of his style-bold, intricate, whip-fast-to this music. Stravinsky's rhythms and punctuation are the idiom of City Ballet dancers, so that their stab-kicking, hip-swiveling, long-leaping display is a unique ballet chronicle...
...modern Grimm idiom, all storybook romances make hot story properties. So, well ahead of a real-life heir, a script has been conceived and delivered, and filming has begun, on Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, a two-hour movie to be aired by CBS later this year. Since most of the authentic locales for the tale (places like Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle) are currently occupied and unavailable for film production, the movie is being shot in the mansions of Long Island, Connecticut and upstate New York. Prince Charles is portrayed by Christopher Baines, a British stage actor...
...amplitude, buoyant lightness and total technical command. There is no empty reverence. To American eyes, the Kirov Chopiniana (called Les Sylphides here) is startling because it is performed seemingly in a sunlit field instead of in a cathedral at midnight. Every Kirov dancer and musician knows a common musical idiom as well. The orchestra takes blithe liberties with tempos-flying allegros, subaqueous adagios-that are a shock to ears accustomed to stricter counts. One needs an entire performance of Swan Lake to absorb the confident, even radical, musical style...
...life and work of tugboat sailors to the last of the short editorials on nature that Hoagland pens of the New York Times, the work are highly crafted. In stylistic terms, Hoagland's reputation as one of the foremost essayists working is well deserved, he has a terrifically readable idiom of his own fashioning at once colloquial, rhythmic and incredibly even. His writing gives a sense of quiet passion of devotion to the minutiae both of his subject and of his prose...