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...Grant and Jason Samuels Smith, also at the Joyce; and an Alvin Ailey premiere at City Center of an older Brown work. The projects travel up and down the century in African-American song and dance....
...The cross-dressing duet for Coridon and Mopsa from The Fairy Queen is always fun, but fine Baroque tenor Samuel Boden and first-rate bass Callum Thorpe were a delight....
...But it is packed with lovely performances: Daniel Booroff as the reporter who turns rescuer, Samuel Thomas as Floyd’s hot-headed brother, and, above all, Ashley Robinson, charismatic and dogged as Floyd,...
...Concerts with thematic programming run until July 10: “Born on the Fourth of July” (July 3-4) features Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Suite and works by George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa; later offerings...
...The evening began with a flawless account of Gershwin’s Cuban Overture. Then it took an oddly funereal turn with Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings ....
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