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True enough, but there is something more to the T & D magic, and even when they remain at Point A, doing their little trick, it stands out: they are not really two dancers but one. When they move, as to Ravel's Bolero or Rimsky- Korsakov's A Song of India, they move as one, the way that A & R -- Astaire and Rogers -- do on the late show, exuding a sensuality that is more pronounced because it is subdued. "I've never felt sexy in my life," said one elderly woman in the Buffalo audience. "But they make me feel...
...healthy interaction between the rock and "classical" avant-gardes, which bore fruit a decade ago in the creative synergy between Tangerine Dream and minimalist composers like Philip Glass, may produce more music of lasting value, just as when jazz first captured the imaginations of composers like Ravel and Gershwin. Whatever happens, it will be a step up from Wham! and Ozzy Osbourne. "New Age fans don't want to feel they are mellowing out," says Howard Wuelfing, a New Age distributor in New Jersey. "Just maturing...
LALO: Symphonie Espagnole; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen. Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Orchestre National de France (Angel; LP or CD). The Symphonie Espagnole is a puzzlement. Neither a symphony nor a concerto, and no more authentically Spanish than Chabrier's Espana or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose...
...opera at Glyndebourne last year, they were refined and improved for the American production. Brought to life by Knussen's witty score, which slyly quotes from composers as disparate as Mussorgsky and Debussy, they may be the most engaging anthropomorphs to appear on the operatic stage since Maurice Ravel breathed life into a Chinese cup, a cat and a tree in L'Enfant et les Sortileges, the 1925 prototype for Wild Things...
...recital included works by Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann, Copland, Ravel and Rachmaninoff...