Comments on: Concerto Barocco https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/#comment-549346 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:41:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24282#comment-549346 George Balanchine
choreographer
Defection 1924
Defected during tour of Germany to Weimar Republic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Soviet_and_Eastern_Bloc_defectors

look through the list and see how many of the greats we treasure, were prisoners before escaping.

now there is no place left on this blue ball to run

]]> By: artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/#comment-549343 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:38:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24282#comment-549343 the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra — which has finally come clean about its over-friendly relationship with the Third Reich and revealed that almost half its players at the time were Nazi Party members; that 13 Jewish players were expelled, five of them to die in concentration camps; and that a lingering culture of sympathy to Nazism survived into the Sixties thanks to an SS-enrolled trumpeter who not only kept his job after the war but became the orchestra’s executive director.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9922592/The-Nazi-musicians-who-changed-their-tune.html

]]> By: parker https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/#comment-548791 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:14:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24282#comment-548791 There is grace and beauty in these videos, but as an ignorant midwestern farm boy I have to admit I can not appreciate the fine details. But thanks for bringing my ‘horse’ to the water.

]]> By: JJ formerly Jimmy J. https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/#comment-548451 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:23:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24282#comment-548451 Beautiful dancing and choreography. I marvel at the grace an ease with which they seem to do these difficult movements. Seeing a dancer go en pointe is just beyond my ability to grasp.

]]> By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2013/03/11/concerto-barocco/#comment-548257 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:15:40 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=24282#comment-548257 Thanks for this – I had never heard of this piece.

Although you’ve had previous discussions about the changes in dancer’s bodyweight – the dancers in that 40s clip look pretty slim and attenuated. The women in the Farrell clip (early 70s?) are the most rounded.

The choreography also adapted pretty well to the small stage that the early TV cameras required (back to the 40s clip). I guess that shows what a “chamber” piece it is.

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