Word: pulcinella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June, the Kogan/Chang/Ma trio will give its final Harvard performance this Saturday with the Bach Society. They will pit their formidable technical and musical skills against the Beethoven Triple Concerto, known affectionately as the Cripple Concerto because of the tremendous demands it makes upon the soloists. Stravinsky's marvelous Pulcinella Suite will also be on the program...
Last week, to open its fall Manhattan season at City Center, the Jeffrey company restaged the original 1920 Ballets Russes production of Pulcinella...
Clearly a lot of TLC went into the staging of Pulcinella, but to uncertain effect. Rouben Ter-Arutunian has tastefully re-created Picasso's costumes and his imposing backdrop-a blue-gray cubist evocation of a moonlit street in 18th century Naples. The vital young Jeffrey dancers, moreover, prance through the one-act ballet as if caught up in a marathon tarantella. But breathing life into this Pulcinella is rather like trying to revive a dead tree by gluing fallen leaves back onto its limbs...
...Pulcinella is the Jeffrey company's first near-miss after a string of Diaghilev revival hits. Last spring, for example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated...
...recapturing the setting and style of the original, and the work itself is performed in an engagingly ambivalent manner that seems to be saying both "Here it is, folks," and "Don't take all this too seriously." A little more of that frolicsome spirit might have helped Pulcinella. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other old Ballets Russes masterpieces just waiting for the Jeffrey treatment. Anyone for Zephyr et Flore? "JohnT.EIson