Word: mephisto
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...Guillem performs five roles, with suitable costume changes, that display her personal range as well as the gamut of ballet's dramatic postures. She does the classic ballerina turn, the rehearsal-costume pas de deux, the androgynous duet, the music-hall floozy and, best of all, the woman-as-Mephisto, in a sexy getup that is mostly tights. She runs her career with great savvy. When things looked dull for a stretch in Paris last winter, she free-lanced a string of guest appearances, learning Giselle on her own. She lives with a dancer colleague, Manuel Legris. Ballet, she concedes...
...program they have prepared for Saturday’s concert will feature a program that Sternlight describes as “very challenging solo piano works,” with Chopin’s Premiere Ballade, Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz, and Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Op. 23, No. 5 in G Minor. Most of the performers, in addition to their undergraduate curriculum, study music extra-curricularly with teachers from the Longy School and New England Conservatory. Original student compositions will additionally make up some of the program, including a new piece entitled Sonatina by Derrick L. Wang...
...Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia publisher, immediately signed them and has now put out this remarkable debut. But wait, there's more! They have also put out a slimmer, one-shot comicbook by Hall and Kindt, "Mephisto and the Empty Box," simultaneously with "Pistolwhip," for a double debut. Somebody tell those guys to calm down. The one book speaks for itself...
...near-bonus comic, fully titled "Pistolwhip Presents: Mephisto and the Empty Box," has little to do with the larger work, though it seems to take place in the same universe. A man's wife disappears into a magician's box when the magician dies onstage. Awash in confusion and grief, the man begins studying the tricks and putting on his own show in hopes of creating her again. At $3.95 it makes for a nice introduction to these guy's unique style, if ponying up $14.95 for the 120-page book seems too much too soon...
Wild's still omnipotent fingers transform the instrument into a source of marvels. He can electrify audiences with an impossibly demonic performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, move them with an achingly tender account of a Sonetto del Petrarca by the composer or do both with the Manichean Sonata in B Minor...