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LIFE STEPS.(the ballets of Frederick Ashton)
The two giants of twentieth-century ballet, Frederick Ashton and George Balanchine, were both born in 1904. And so, early this month, we were no sooner getting over New York City Ballet's Balanchine centennial than the Lincoln Center Festival brought us a two-week Ashton Celebration, with four companies--England's Royal Ballet, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the K-Ballet of Tokyo, and the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago--performing eleven ballets, plus assorted pas de deux. One would like to be judicious about these shows, and say who danced better than who, and so forth. But Ashton, after his death in 1988, tended to drop out of repertory--a situation that is only now reversing. ...
- Royal Ballet. (Royal Ballet Opera House, London, England)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Parry, Jann March 1, 1995 700+ words
The Royal Ballet celebrated the ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Sir...Michael Somes, who had just successfully mounted Ashton's Enigma Variations for Birmingham Royal Ballet, died before he could complete his coaching sessions with...
- Michael Somes, 77, Danced for Royal Ballet
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times November 27, 1994 700+ words
...with a brain tumor. The Royal Ballet's famed chief choreographer...became the director of the Royal Ballet with Mr. Somes as his...received praise for "Enigma Variations," staged for the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Born in Horsely in southwest...
- Double double.(Enigma Variations)(Sound recording review)
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound January 1, 2007 700+ words
...commercial soundtracks--Elgar's Enigma Variations. In a previous installment of our...with this much power. Although the Enigma Variations is not a piece to which I listen...when I want to listen to just the Enigma Variations, it is more likely that it will...
- Elgar: "Enigma" Variations.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes MEIKLE, ROBERT March 1, 2000 700+ words
...pbk.).] Edward Elgar's "Enigma" Variations is unique in the history of Western...tricycle, or a dog. Although "Enigma" Variations has enjoyed a continual presence...for Patrick Turner (Elgar's "Enigma" Variations: A Centenary Celebration [London...
- "Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico"; Santa Monica Museum...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Tumlir, Jan December 1, 2006 700+ words
...His Muse, 1925, among other key works. The bulk of "Enigma Variations" is given over to Guston's stunning hood paintings...the title of the exhibition suggests, the premise of "Enigma Variations" is complex: The strongest ties are sometimes forged...
- First Performance of Elgar's `Enigma Variations'.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: History Today Cavendish, Richard June 1, 1999 700+ words
...s Hall in Piccadilly, London, the premiere of the `Enigma Variations' ushered Edward Elgar on to the national stage. In the...music to, but London had thus far defeated him. The `Enigma Variations' were first conceived humorously as a series of musical...
- Enigma Variations
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE January 1, 1996 700+ words
Enigma Variations ( Variations on an Original Theme ( Enigma )). Elgar's Op.36 for full orch., comp. 1898–9. F.p. London...
- Enigma variations
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London john windsor October 14, 1995 700+ words
It could be mistaken for an outsize laptop computer but is actually a battery-driven Enigma, the most famous military code machine. The Germans used it during the Second World War to transmit orders and strategic information, but the Poles and British cracked its secrets. Forewarned was forearmed,
