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...Siegfried’s heir-hungry mama is often just a few mime gestures in a big dress but was brought to life by Elizabeth McGorian, whose mournful froideur explains her son’s state of mind....
...The safety pin appeared often — in true punk fashion, it pierced Dior’s logotype just as it has pierced Queen Elizabeth II’s face, here pricking the balloon of this venerable Parisian institution....
...Leschenko throws in a glittering arrangement of the waltz from Delibes’s Coppélia by Dohnányi. Everything bristles with hard driving and fleeting colours. ★★★★☆...
...It sets out the drama with happiest touches, understands its sentiments — the party at the Stahlbaum house is a delight and I offer my annual homage to Elizabeth McGorian as the most charming of hostesses...
...Grainy studio portraits on the walls of QM2 showed the actors, writers and jazz musicians who crossed on the Queen Elizabeth during the pre-jet golden age, among them Elizabeth Taylor and Duke Ellington....
...A couple of years on, he is touring with that programme of highly contrasted pieces, except that it has now been extended with a short, lullaby-like waltz by Brahms to represent the latest arrival, a new...
...On Thursday, that meant a waltz through late 19th century Russia, with an opening sequence that took a romanticised view of the urban industrial revolutionary; think pageboy caps, with inky cashmere cable-knit...
...I also have a copy of Kathe Koja’s The Mercury Waltz, the sequel to her amazing book, Under The Poppy. Do you read on paper or ebook?...
...Where Sasha Waltz’s 2011 world-premiere staging in Brussels was rich in choreographic elaboration, Shi-Zheng has reduced the opera to its essentials....
...Scriabin’s Waltz in A flat was at once seductive and mesmerising. A fantasy on the Blue Danube waltz by Andrei Schulz-Evler was fantastic in every sense of the word, elfin-light and glittering....
...Funniest of all is lawyer Waltz’s fielding of cellphone business calls, in which his responses clearly indicate a shyster at work....
...an ideal Christmas tree and a magical transformation; snowflakes that owe something to the first Petersburg choreography; Paul Kay as a splendid and buoyant Nutcracker; Laura Morera gloriously leading a waltz...
...“Furious Love (For Liz)” was a waltz about a visit Liz Taylor paid to Juarez when it was an exotic destination for thrill-seeking northerners....
...“Song for E” was an arpeggiated waltz lament for the late Svensson, and new tune “Trackpounder” excitingly warped underground rock and roll....
...A lousy dancer, he was practising the waltz....
...Britten and Pears added a porch in 1967 when Queen Elizabeth visited but the feeling is one of homeliness....
...A waltz passes by, and later a sort of circus polka, but they are gone as soon as they come, each a mirage in the desert. The short third movement is journey’s end....
...Elsewhere, the UK saxophonist Tony Kofi’s quartet, helped out by major-league guests, romped imaginatively through the entire Thelonius Monk catalogue in three sets at the Queen Elizabeth Hall – I caught...
...Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, a Swiss doctor who worked with the terminally ill, analysed characteristic human reactions to loss or bereavement....
...The Emersons are at their best in the “innocent” Shostakovich – the First Quartet’s miniature funeral march, the ballerina waltz of the Fourth, the rustic dance of the Sixth....
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