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Still, there it is, opened last week with a production of Prokofiev's War and Peace, and ready now for its ceremonial visit by Queen Elizabeth II-an Opera House that marks a watershed in Australian cultural history, if not (as was once hoped) in that of world architecture...
...with poor concert grands in many musical centers of the Western world, including Paris, London, Brussels and Zurich, I would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...
...wonder. Based on a Prokofiev suite, Waltzes is perhaps Robbins' most sensuous and romantic ballet and, at the same time, an intellectually ingenious treatment of the possibilities inherent in this dance form. In the first four sections of the work, Robbins uses the waltz almost as a leitmotiv. In the midst of a complex variation, for instance, the corps will suddenly pace off a basic waltz step. At the finale, the stage is filled with swirling bodies, suggesting the Dionysian impulses of a dance once considered impolitely erotic...
There is a glowering intensity to the Prokofiev waltzes, as if clouds were looming over an imperial palace where a ball is being held. Ever a man of the theater, Robbins has matched the mood of this music in a work of mystery and delight...
SYMPHONY HALL. Lorin Maazel conducting the BSO. Prokofiev: Third-Piano Concerto (Israela Margalet, soloist); Sibelius: Second Symphony. Tickets: 266-1492. April...