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...extremely predictable music hardly demands enough of the soloist for virtuoso display. Flaksman won the concerto auditions playing the Saint-Saens concerto, which is at least pretty, flashy, and, according to cellists, a good piece of cello writing. Why diddle around with warmed-over Vivaldi...
Many of the dancers quite seriously believe that leaving Balanchine's company would be as disastrously stupid as skipping Mozart's piano classes in Vienna, and every dancer states the same ambition: "First to be in the corps, then a soloist, then a principal." The resuit of such spirit is a company amazingly deep in great dancers; the merest member of the corps, Balanchine insists, could have been a prima ballerina in imperial Russia...
...gave the first performance of Sinfonia Sacra for Violin and Two Chamber Groups, written by John Harbison, Junior Fellow in Music, for his wife, concert-mistress and soloist last night. The BSO opened the program with William Boyce's Symphony...
...good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
...Guest soloist will be the renowned pianist Katja Andy, who will play Bartok's last work, the Piano Concerto No.3...