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Scottish Ballet gets the new year off to a sound first footing
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... leap away from the sugar-coated 19th century period context usually associated with the Hoffmann story and the Tchaikovsky score. Jaws dropped, for sure, but shock gave way to awe and applause. Now, thanks to subsequent Page-McDonald triumphs (and ... Comment?
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
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... Bourne's affectionate lack of respect), nor was it the celebration of gay emotional ties; after all, composer Tchaikovsky's sublime music was born of sexual conflict. What really got up the art tarts' noses was the instant and colossal smash hit the ... Comment?
Swan Lake is white hot
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... Bourne's affectionate lack of respect), nor was it the celebration of gay emotional ties; after all, composer Tchaikovsky's sublime music was born of sexual conflict. What really got up the art tarts' noses was the instant and colossal smash hit the ... Comment?
Swan Lake, Sadlera s Wells, LondonThe Nutcracker, Royal Opera House, London
... air to denote swiping wings are much reduced, though the slap of bare soles still add insidious punctuation to Tchaikovsky's score. That, too, shows evidence of a restraining hand. The tendency for any long-running show is for tempi to speed up, and ... Comment?
... Director Dennis Nahat created this "Nutcracker" in Cleveland in 1979, he, apparently, decided that the vaunted Tchaikovsky score as it stands wasn't good enough to support his and Ian Horvath's scenario. So, Nahat cut and rearranged what he had and ... Comment?
... way through music director Michael Morgan's clever reduction, abridgement and rearrangement of the enduring Tchaikovsky ballet score. Note that neither Morgan nor any other musician conducts the orchestra, but the playing still lends continuity and ... Comment?
Live Review: Pink Martini at The Schnitz, New Yeara s Eve a 09
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... symphony gig last year. He's positively dynamic in the brilliantly audacious interpolation of the big theme from Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, complete with surging strings, in the midst of the new album's title track, although it'd be even ... Comment?
Amanda Palmer brings snap, crackle to Boston Pops
... with a bustle and laced corset, with her trademark torn stockings and garters, braced for her biggest challenge, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. She played about four minutes, before scampering into the audience to find her plant, pianist Lance ... Comment?
... elements of the great Bolshoi and Kirov Ballet companies within the framework of Russian classic ballet. Set to Tchaikovsky's glorious score, Swan Lake is a romantic tale of true love and forgiveness and is often considered the world's most beloved ... Comment?
Comic Tchaikovsky: 'The Tsarina's Slippers'
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Vakula helps his true love Oxana with her new slippers, while she uses The Devil as a stool, in Tchaikovsky's opera, performed at Covent Garden. Comment?
... for cello and orchestra, is required listening I doubt... even when Mischa Maisky is responsible for it. But Tchaikovsky Roccoco Variations will be nice to hear in concert and DvoA A k with IvA n Fischer - the 8th in this case - should never be ... Comment?
... favourite The Nutcracker on Sunday, December 13, as The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet combine to bring Tchaikovsky's charming fantasy to fresh life. The current season of seven shows ends in May 2010 with The Tsarina's Slippers. Marketing ... Comment?
... Cinderella and Firebird ) and has been welcomed in concert halls the world over. It is featured regularly at Tchaikovsky Hall, and at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and continues to broadcast on Russian radio and television. Tickets are $49, ... Comment?
Amanda Palmer and Boston Pops on Parade at Symphony on New Year's Eve
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... show New Year's Eve . Some new wrinkles for both Palmer and Lockhart: She's been learning the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1. As to Boston Pops conductor Lockhart, if Palmer gets her way he may just be wearing lipsti ck and a feather ... Comment?
Danish composer raised standards at Peabody Conservatory
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... The conservatory drew high praise from several distinguished musical visitors during Hamerik's watch, among them Tchaikovsky and Arthur Sullivan. The director also won the public's attention and support with a concert series he founded and conducted ... Comment?
She's not the only one. The provocative singer-pianist of the cabaret-punk duo Dresden Dolls will ring in 2010 by going classical and playing the first movement of Tchaikovsky's "Concerto No. Comment?
Merry Xmas in Hollywood: Box-office record falls
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... THEATRE The Nutcracker By Michael Martin Artistic Director Edward Villella utilizes classical ballet, set to Tchaikovsky's well known score, to present the timeless story of a young girl's fantasy dream journey to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy in ... Comment?
... THEATRE The Nutcracker By Michael Martin Artistic Director Edward Villella utilizes classical ballet, set to Tchaikovsky's well known score, to present the timeless story of a young girl's fantasy dream journey to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy in ... Comment?
Wizards of Waverly Place - The Movie
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... THEATRE The Nutcracker By Michael Martin Artistic Director Edward Villella utilizes classical ballet, set to Tchaikovsky's well known score, to present the timeless story of a young girl's fantasy dream journey to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy in ... Comment?
EDGE's Guide to the Holiday Movies
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... THEATRE The Nutcracker By Michael Martin Artistic Director Edward Villella utilizes classical ballet, set to Tchaikovsky's well known score, to present the timeless story of a young girl's fantasy dream journey to the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy in ... Comment?