Review: Sarasota Ballet closes season with program of Ashton and Tharp
Ashton’s “Birthday Offering” and Tharp’s “Nine Sinatra Songs” bring an end to a season of digital video programs viewed through home streaming.
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Ashton’s “Birthday Offering” and Tharp’s “Nine Sinatra Songs” bring an end to a season of digital video programs viewed through home streaming.
New Dingbat Theatre Project presents the hit Broadway musical with a cast of eight actors using puppets and props to tell story of the infamous ogre.
Inspired by the Brentano Quartet’s performance of Haydn’s Op. 77 No. 2 quartet, the Entr’acte sounds like it has one foot planted in the 18th century and the other firmly in the 21st. Time and sound seem to refract through a kaleidoscope of colors, leaving the listener endlessly fascinated. The music is melancholy with intense fluctuations in dynamics like the liquidity of emotions. Pitch is relevant until it is not as the score takes a curve into another world with an extended technique of brushing the bow hair on, but not vibrating, the string for whooshes and sweeps. Wherever the mus...