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| Today's matinee program was certainly unusual: it' s rare that a Symphony performance begins without any symphony members present onstage, but after an introduction that was both warm and heartfelt and somewhat mealymouthed, MTT slipped off, leaving the stage empty until GSJ filed in to their places in the front. I feel lucky to have been assigned today's seat -- smack dab in the center of the fourth row, and absolutely perfect for watching the dancers and performers. Molto bene! While my untutored recollection is that Legong is typically advertised as the 'dance of the virgins' and performed by preteens, todays quintet of dancers were all certainly of college age if not even a decade or two past that. For me, this changed the dance quite a bit, making it a less alien spectacle. Probably also a lot easier to find adult legong dancers in Berkeley, but I have to say that I haven't searched for any, so my opinion is unsubstantiated. | Today's matinee program was certainly unusual: it' s rare that a Symphony performance begins without any symphony members present onstage, but after an introduction that was both warm and heartfelt and somewhat mealy mouthed, MTT slipped off, leaving the stage empty until GSJ filed in to their places in the front. I feel lucky to have been assigned today's seat -- smack dab in the center of the fourth row, and absolutely perfect for watching the dancers and performers. Molto bene! While my untutored recollection is that Legong is typically advertised as the 'dance of the virgins' and performed by preteens, todays quintet of dancers were all certainly of college age if not even a decade or two past that. For me, this changed the dance quite a bit, making it a less alien spectacle. Probably also a lot easier to find adult legong dancers in Berkeley, but I have to say that I haven't searched for any, so my opinion is unsubstantiated. |
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| I thought the concluding work on today's program, an arrangement of Britten's 1957? ballet, _the Prince of Pagodas_, by Donald Mitchell and Mervyn Cooke, was darn interesting. Britten (or Mitchell and Cooke?) did a really fine job of orchestrating the parts to approximate the sound of a gamelan. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Britten was leaning hard on LP's that he picked up in Bali to tune his aural memories while writing the work. It's a shame that the piece was presented out of context -- without costumed ballet dancers or thatrical backdrops -- but that's not too surprising given the nature of the event, and not really even a complaint, just an observation that I'd have liked the extra sensory input! | I thought the concluding work on today's program, an arrangement of Britten's 1957? ballet, _the Prince of Pagodas_, by Donald Mitchell and Mervyn Cooke, was darn interesting. Britten (or Mitchell and Cooke?) did a really fine job of orchestrating the parts to approximate the sound of a gamelan. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Britten was leaning hard on LP's that he picked up in Bali to tune his aural memories while writing the work. It's a shame that the piece was presented out of context -- without costumed ballet dancers or theatrical backdrops -- but that's not too surprising given the nature of the event, and not really even a complaint, just an observation that I'd have liked the extra sensory input! |
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| Unfortunately, I seemed to have mucked things up with the set timing, and my data for the second set has been lost. I hate it when that happens! | Unfortunately, I seemed to have mucked things up with the set timing, and my data for the second set has been lost. I hate it when that happens! |
