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Peter Martins on the airwaves


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From the company web site:

Peter Martins Interview

On Thursday, May 15, radio station WNYC (FM 93.9) will air an interview with New York City Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins beginning at 2:06pm. Mr. Martins will discuss his work with composer John Adams including their newest collaboration, Guide to Strange Places.

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Like all of Martins' ballets to Adams' music so far, this is not strictly speaking a collaboration. The music already existed before Martins did the choreography. Only in the case of Adams' Violin Concerto was there a quasi-collaboration in that Adams knew before composing it that it would be used for a Martins ballet. Oddly enough, Martins has expressed unhappiness with some of his choreography for that one.

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I just finished listening to the Martins interview. The artistic director/ballet-master-in-chief claims that his CHAIRMAN DANCES was the "first" all female ballet. I can think of at least three that premiered long before that:

GALA PERFORMANCE (the 19th century one)

SCHERZO A LA RUSSE

ANTIQUE EPIGRAPHS

I'm sure there are others...

Just think, in August Martins and Gergiev can share their revisionist history of theatre together.

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I heard the interview too, and the interviewer expressed surprise at Martins' claim, but the Ballet Master in Chief had no doubts on the matter. Apparently he doesn't even remember the Robbins (his one-time co-Ballet Master in Chief) "Antique Epigraphs."

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And what of the "Ballet of the Spirits of Nuns" in Robert le Diable? The only man I can think of is a singer who is "in hiding" during it, which actually means he's slipped offstage.

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