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Bright spots shine in a dark year for dance
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Bright spots shine in a dark year for dance
By Jill Sykes
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To take a year from a dancer’s performing life is about as cruel as you could be - their on-stage careers are already brutally short.
Curiously, some good things happened to dance in 2020, despite COVID-19. Mostly they were to do with communication – among dancers within their communities, and between companies and their audiences, which grew as the performers went online.
Dancers can’t just stop; they have to keep their bodies in good form. Every day. Even when there are no public performances in sight.
Beethoven: Finding joy in times of crisis
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No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethovenâs command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert.
Still heard: Beethoven turns 250 this year.
âBeethoven is minimalist and maximalist, a composer of immensely conflicted personae,â Tognetti says. âBeethoven the moralist, environmentalist, philosopher; Beethoven the enraged, fulminating against the establishment and elites, hubristic, histrionic and yet tragic. Beethoven the disrupter and Beethoven the clarifier of musical intention.â
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No matter how many times one listens to his music, Beethovenâs command of contrasting worlds and conflict is breathtaking, says Richard Tognetti, artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
The German master created some of the most sublime, sensitive, electrifying and fiery works, sometimes composed at the same time and premiered in the very same concert.
Still heard: Beethoven turns 250 this year.
âBeethoven is minimalist and maximalist, a composer of immensely conflicted personae,â Tognetti says. âBeethoven the moralist, environmentalist, philosopher; Beethoven the enraged, fulminating against the establishment and elites, hubristic, histrionic and yet tragic. Beethoven the disrupter and Beethoven the clarifier of musical intention.â
Christmastime is here at last and BroadwayWorld is continuing our favorite annual tradition of celebrating the holiday season with a 12 Days of Christmas countdown. This year we ve invited superstar of stage and screen Lea Salonga to share some of her most cherished holiday songs and performances.
Check back daily to get in the holiday spirit in time for December 25 and to find out what else made her list! There are so many great SNL Christmas moments but Michael Buble s duets is one of my favorites. Jimmy Fallon as Justin Bieber gets me every time. I think it s time for them to resurrect this skit for 2020!