Famed conductor Valery Gergiev led Saint Petersburg’s celebrated Mariinsky orchestra through pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin in front of a crowd of Russian soldiers, government ministers and journalists.
Tag: 05.05.16
Mattel’s New Misty Copeland Doll – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
It resembles Copeland in some ways: It’s clearly a ballerina, with nicely arched feet in pink toe shoes, hair pulled back, stage makeup, dance costume. The costume is one that’s closely identified with Copeland, copied from the flame-red unitard she wears in the ballet “Firebird.”
The Tiny Archipelago Whose Only Export Is Music
“When we became independent, all we had was people. Today, all we export is music, maybe because it was always the easiest art. You don’t need any material to sing.”
Cautionary Tale: I’m A Composer And Apple Deleted Music On My Hard Drive When I Signed Up For Apple Music
“When I signed up for Apple Music, iTunes evaluated my massive collection of Mp3s and WAV files, scanned Apple’s database for what it considered matches, then removed the original files from my internal hard drive. REMOVED them. Deleted. If Apple Music saw a file it didn’t recognize—which came up often, since I’m a freelance composer and have many music files that I created myself—it would then download it to Apple’s database, delete it from my hard drive, and serve it back to me when I wanted to listen, just like it would with my other music files it had deleted.”
William Forsythe Begins Five-Year Partnership With Boston Ballet
The company and the choreographer have “an agreement to add one work each year, as well as performing the four ballets already in the company repertory. The first acquisition is Mr. Forsythe’s full-length Artifact, which will be performed [next winter].”