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  • Review: Mark Morris' 'Spring' bucks recent 'Rite'
    'Spring, Spring, Spring,' from the choreographer with an arrangement by the Bad Plus, reverses trends in performing Stravinksy's 'Rite of Spring.' BERKELEY — "The Rite of Spring" is a ballet born of violence. Stravinsky's score unfurls the furious sudden spring of his native St. Petersburg, the sounds of cracking ice on the river Neva being like gunfire. Taken from the scandalous sexuality of ...
    June 14, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
  • Ojai North! in Berkeley serves a cocktail of sounds, sights
    What happens when you shake, stir and allow to mingle a music-savvy choreographer ( Mark Morris ), two earth-and-occasionally-ear-shattering composers (John Cowell, Igor Stravinsky), a marvelously matched foursome (American String Quartet) and a nimble jazz/pop/avant-garde trio (The Bad Plus)? You get a mixed drink — and that’s exactly what Cal Performances’ Ojai North! 2013 festival served up ...
    June 13, 2013 - Berkeleyside
  • ‘Nikolai and the Others,’ a Theatrical Portrait of Balanchine
    Richard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” gives an intimate portrait of Balanchine at work with Stravinsky on the ballet “Orpheus.”
    June 10, 2013 - New York Times
Quotes

  • Robert Spano in KUAR
    I hear 'Doctor Atomic' as an amazing amalgamation of 20th-century musical styles,says Spano, "which John could do since he wrote it in the 21st century. He speaks in many tongues, and that includes Stravinsky and Mahler and sci-fi movie...
  • Steve Winwood in Ottawa Citizen
    I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles,said Winwood. "I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like...
  • John Lahr in New York Times
    In his essay John Lahr says it all: "Shut your eyes and think of the following people: Marilyn Monroe, Jean Renoir, Truman Capote, Buster Keaton, Bert Lahr, Bob Dylan, Katharine Hepburn, Igor Stravinsky, Lena Horne, Oscar Levant, Ezra Pound, the...

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