Jump to content
This Site Uses Cookies. If You Want to Disable Cookies, Please See Your Browser Documentation. ×
Support Ballet Alert! Year Round through the Amazon Affiliates Program by Clicking Here to Order from Amazon.com
2024 Ballet Talk Fundraiser -- Our Goal is $1500, with $185 to Go, Getting Closer

CM

Senior Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    136

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by CM

    Diaghilev Ballet Russe Centenary Celebration 2009

    in Ballet History and Music

    Posted

    Have you tried the booking telephone number for ticket problems?

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/your_visit/tickets/index.html

    Otherwise there are some other general and booking related telephone/e-mail contacts on the web-site (they come up when you double-click on "contact us" at the bottom of the page)

    Also, interview at Theatre Voice (audio)

    "Diaghilev special: Jane Pritchard, Curator of Dance at the V&A, talks to Carole Woddis about Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, the upcoming V&A exhibition which marks the centenary of the Ballets Russes, including items relating to The Firebird (1910) and The Rite of Spring (1913). She also describes the V&A's Theatre and Performance Collection, located at Blythe House. More info: www.vam.ac.uk"

    http://podcast.theatrevoice.com/theatrevoice_I_pritchard_08_10.mp3

    Chopin's second centenary

    in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events

    Posted

    Thanks, kfw.

    15 hours (60 programmes) of Chopin recitals "un ete avec Chopin" are available on France 3 (audio) for the next week (up until September 10th?). Performances are from the 200th anniversary recitals at Chateauroux and at Salle Pleyel on 27th and 28th February this year. List of programmes/access to recitals is at: http://programmes.france3.fr/musique-classique/?page=evenements&id_article=737

    More information on the recitals and the pianists is available at http://www.frederic-chopin.com/anniv%202010/Program.pdf

    Videos of the last six recitals are on http://www.pluzz.fr/recherche.html?q=chopin - they are only on pluzz fr for one week, so we will lose a video every day - video from the 28th August - the barcarolle - will probably go within the next few hours.

    "Lever du Soleil et Arrivee de la Cour"

    in Giselle

    Posted

    ...the lento music is an interpolation from the 1903 Pavlova debut in the role...

    ...ah, beautiful..so the fast ending was indeed the original one. Thanks Mel! :thumbsup:

    I was just curious, because in every single performance I've seen of Giselle after I left Cuba-(MCB, ABT and those on video, either Russians or those of Makarova and Nureyev)- I get the slow one.

    Vasiliev's production of Giselle for the Bolshoi has a similar ending to the Cuban Giselle - I'm guessing that it would probably be the same music, however it's a long time since I've seen the production

    It is the same music - it's included in an excerpt from a russian news bulletin (on youtube) that features Osipova's and Hallberg's Giselle

    "Lever du Soleil et Arrivee de la Cour"

    in Giselle

    Posted

    ...the lento music is an interpolation from the 1903 Pavlova debut in the role...

    ...ah, beautiful..so the fast ending was indeed the original one. Thanks Mel! :wink:

    I was just curious, because in every single performance I've seen of Giselle after I left Cuba-(MCB, ABT and those on video, either Russians or those of Makarova and Nureyev)- I get the slow one.

    Vasiliev's production of Giselle for the Bolshoi has a similar ending to the Cuban Giselle - I'm guessing that it would probably be the same music, however it's a long time since I've seen the production

    Diaghilev Ballet Russe Centenary Celebration 2009

    in Ballet History and Music

    Posted

    Christopher Cook and Sarah Woodcock discuss a costume designed by Nicholas Roerich for the Rite of Spring (2004 audio)

    http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/a...ring/index.html

    A new perfume has been commissioned to coincide with the opening of the Diaghilev exhibition at the V@A in September

    http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scentedsalaman...2010_new_f.html

    http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=1398...127111967315301

    BNC in London

    in National Ballet of Cuba

    Posted

    Thanks for the link, CM. The clip of the company in Swan Lake (a small and slightly ragged corps, a lovely Viengsay Valdez and a gentle, courtly Carlos Acosta) is worth looking at. I assume it was shot in Havana?

    Looking forward to the reviews and comments from London. :wink: Please, everyone, post reviews, links to reviews, and impressions on this thread.

    I believe the swan lake clip is the press call at the Coliseum - you can hear the cameras clicking

    Chopin's second centenary

    in Other Performing & Fine Arts: Performances, Exhibits, Films, and Events

    Posted

    Here is perhaps an example of that aspect of Chopin from that most elegant of pianists, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. I've never heard a thing of his I didn't think was close to perfect, although he's not to all tastes. So here is the First Ballade:

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8...05611106874924#

    Thank you so much for the link -- I love his playing.

    Although I believe that some find his performances slow, my favourite chopin CD is Geza Anda's collection of waltzes. His minute waltz is on youtube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykyf30Dxqy4

×
×
  • Create New...