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Channel 13’s got Nuryev on the neurons.
So do the papers…
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After The Dance: Mark Morris’ “Mozart Dances” In Review
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group, Mozart Dances (Real and televised versions!)
There is an interesting passage from Apollinaire Scherr’s Newsday preview of Mark Morris Dance Company’s Live From Lincoln Center presentation of Mozart Dances last Thursday:
“Morris was concerned that the transitions to the musicians not make the dancers seem like “figments of the musicians’ imagination,” he [...]
DUmb Critic Hack Awards: The DUCHIES!
Today’s DUCHY goes to Linda Winer at Newsday for her review of Opus, which we reviewed the other day.
“[The playwright, Michael Hollinger] describes classical music - a most abstract art form - without descending into metaphoric nonsense,” she writes.
I’m guessing Winer hasn’t had a metaphor in quite some time, because these “subtle” moments she refers [...]
Little Hill of Horrors
Justin Davidson at Newsday chimes in on Into the Little Hill.
On one hand, Davidson sounds quite musically informed (unlike Vivien Schweitzer whoseTimes review of two one-act Zemlinsky operas was all synopsis and sets), but then he also seems totally intolerant (and even a little arrogant) toward atonality. But George Benjamin’s atonality is kind of the [...]
