Helene Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 This post should straddle enough time zones for everyone from Japan and Australia to Hawaii: Happy New Year and a Healthy and Prosperous 2013 to all Ballet Alertniks and their families and friends! I'd like to extend my appreciation especially to dirac for dirac's work on Links and carbro for carbro's many hours managing BA registrations and "Contact Us" queries and guarding BA from spammers, most of this behind the scenes. Links is a huge commitment and much work, and it is the most widely read feature on Ballet Alert! because of the quality and depth of dirac's findings. Another treasure of the site is rg's photo collection, and his generosity in sharing these rare historic photos is very much appreciated. My thanks also to Mme. Hermine, who does Sunday Links, and to the Moderating team for raising thought-provoking topics and keeping their eyes on the site. We wouldn't be a discussion board without the contributions of our members, both on the site and through our fundraisers and amazon.com Links. Here's to a great 2013! Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 And let me be the very first to extend your words. Since my registration, BT has been a wonderful place to come and engage in intelligent and wonderful discussions about the art we love, and I'm certainly very grateful to have that. I always tell my friends that it feels to me like a little apartment to which I can always come back and resume conversations with people continuously getting in and out, even after years having being initiated... May 2013 brings to all of us and our loved ones health and inner and outer peace. Looking forward to an even better year of B.talkin'..! (And...this will be my Kirov/Mariinsky life-long waited pilgrimage, so let's see what do I "get"... ) Link to comment
abatt Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy New Year to all, and thank you to everyone who makes Ballet Alert possible. Link to comment
Bonnette Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 My deepest gratitude to everyone here, for making this such a welcoming, informative and enlightening place. Happy new year to one and all! Link to comment
Alexandra Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! Link to comment
ascballerina Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy 2013, everyone! Link to comment
sandik Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Indeed -- many, many thanks to everyone who participates here, but especially to moderators and other, who make this such a pleasant island on the internet seas. Link to comment
KarenAG Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy New Year to all at BalletAlert! and may the year be happy, healthy and peaceful for you all! Looking forward to 2013 and exciting discussions with you over the year. -Karen Link to comment
KarenAG Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Oh yes - my first ballet event of 2013 (outside of watching DVDs from time to time, including Nutcracker once more today ) will be on January 19 when we visit Lincoln Center for NYCB's matinee of Balanchine and Tschaikovsky, including Allegro Brillante! Can't wait!! Link to comment
rg Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Saluting the new year by way of an English postcard, posted in 1906, of Danish-British dancer Adeline Genée (born Anina Jensen). Link to comment
sandik Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 What a lovely start to the new year -- thank you so very much for the image! Link to comment
rg Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 moving a bit off topic, this rare, to me, glimpse of Balanchine's TRUMPET CONCERTO (to Haydn, 1950, for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet) of which i know little, and in which David Vaughan tells me there was much saluting of which he had little admiration. Link to comment
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