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Work: Apollo (Apollon musagète)

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ComposerStravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Work typeDance
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LondonAncient Greek Meze

Barbican
Woolrich, Charpentier, Haydn, Stravinsky, Britten
Britten Sinfonia; Helen Charlston

MilanBalanchine / Bausch / Stravinsky

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Stravinsky
George Balanchine; Pina Bausch; Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
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Apollonian radiance and women scorned: the Britten Sinfonia at Snape

Helen Charlston and the Britten Sinfonia © Marcus Roth
Hell holds no fury like a woman scorned, and it was certainly so in Greek mythology, celebrated in this outstanding Aldeburgh Festival performance by the Britten Sinfonia and Helen Charlston.
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New York City Ballet, interrupted

Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia in Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux © Erin Baiano
Opening New York City Ballet's spring season, a quadruple bill of major and minor Balanchine eventually proceeded after protestors infiltrated the Koch Theater and created a diversion. 
****1
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A distinctive Friday night at Tanglewood

Boston Ballet in George Balanchine's Apollo © Hilary Scott
A new leader takes over that BSO's concertmaster chair that Malcolm Lowe occupied with distinction for more than three decades
****1
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Igor Stravinsky, portrait by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1915) © Public domain
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