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Hoover historians celebrate new grave markers at Birmingham cemetery AL.com 5/1/2021 Greg Garrison, al.com © Greg Garrison Jim Langley, president of the Hoover Historical Society, gives a tour of Oak Hill Cemetery in downtown Birmingham. Jim Langley, president of the Hoover Historical Society, led a guided tour through Oak Hill Cemetery in downtown Birmingham on Friday morning and many of those following him through the oak-shaded lanes were descendants of one of the famous families buried there. “The people that founded Birmingham are pretty much all buried here,” sa...

The Sarasota Ballet released the sixth Digital Program of the 2020-2021 season this past weekend. The triple bill was comprised of a splendid array of Sir Frederick Ashton ballets. Although the dancers are versed in many different choreographic styles, the Ashton style is arguably the strongest from Corps de Ballet to Principals. Kate Honea and Ricardo Graziano in Sir Frederick Ashton's "Facade." (Frank Atura photo) Director Iain Webb and Assistant Artistic Director Margaret Barbieri have worked tirelessly to preserve the original choreography of Ashton’s ballets; they have even revived so...

They also have revived ballets no longer performed anywhere else. One of those is “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales,” from 1947, which had not been seen in decades when Barbieri and Webb brought it back in 2011. It is the opening ballet in the company’s sixth digital program, an hour-long triple bill devoted to Ashton. (The program is available through Wednesday, one day longer than planned, because of a technical glitch that delayed the digital release.)  “Valses Nobles” is set to Ravel’s suite of the same name. With its layered melodies and unsettling dissonances, the music su...

It is one of three Ashton works that fill the revised lineup for the company’s sixth digital program. Artistic Director Iain Webb had originally planned to feature George Balanchine’s “Serenade” along with “Valses” and Ashton’s “The Walk to the Paradise Garden.” Because of health and safety protocols, he replaced the Balanchine work with a third Ashton piece, “Facade,” which the company has performed many times. Rhodes and Hulland last danced “Valses Nobles” together about five years ago, and it’s been at least two years since they partnered. Even after a break, Hu...

Five in court after £40,000 of drugs recovered in Aberdeen Updated: 11/03/2021, 3:06 pm © ABERDEEN JOURNALS LTD Aberdeen Sheriff Court. Five men have appeared in court following the discovery of drugs worth around £40,000 in Aberdeen. The group appeared in private at Aberdeen Sheriff Court following a series of police raids across the city. Stuart Kelly, 42, from Fraserburgh, is accused of being concerned in the supply of drugs and being in possession of a controlled drug. He made no plea and was remanded in custody. Daniel Pratt, 39, of Fraserburgh, faces a single charge of being concerne...