The orchestra, which was to have celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Kennedy Center, started its nomadic season in Bethesda, Md.
Category: projects-dance-adjacent
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With Kennedy Center Closed, National Symphony Starts Life on the Road
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‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Review: Ballroom, Not Strictly
The New York Times – Movies:A Japanese widow looks for consolation in ballroom dance in a sweet but uneven drama.
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Watch Rinko Kikuchi Dance in ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’
The New York Times – Movies:Kikuchi and the film’s director, Josef Kubota Wladyka, break down five key dance sequences from the film.
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How ‘Glee’ Made Musical Theater Cool
The New York Times – Music:The TV series, our critic writes, gave us a slew of talented stage performers and used pop songs to help turn musical theater into mass entertainment.
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‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ Review: Ballroom, Not Simply
The New York Times – Movies:A Japanese widow looks for consolation in ballroom dance in a sweet but uneven drama.
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Violinist Jennifer Koh on Her Decade-Long Struggle With a Rare Neurological Disorder
The New York Times – Music:For 10 years Jennifer Koh struggled to understand and treat a rare neurological disorder, while trying to maintain a full calendar onstage.
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‘It’s Very Simple’: 50 Years of Making Avant-Garde Music Sound Effortless
The New York Times – Music:Founded by Pierre Boulez to treat new compositions with orchestral rigor, Ensemble Intercontemporain has honed the art of turning forbidding scores into expressive sound.
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With Helicopters and Dancing Camels, an Opera House Changes Its Groove
The New York Times – Music:The Deutsche Oper Berlin is staging Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic “Mittwoch aus Licht” at the start of a new season and a new era.
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Louisa Proske Switches on the ‘Epic Brain’ to Direct ‘Macbeth’ at the Met
The New York Times – Music:The rising director Louisa Proske makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with the season-opening “Macbeth,” a large-scale production that came with a ticking timer.
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With ‘Barely Breathing’, Duncan Sheik Became an Accidental Pop Star
The New York Times – Music:Sheik’s song “Barely Breathing” spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the late 1990s. But the success only propelled him closer to Broadway.
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Can a New Museum Persuade Austria to Finally Love ‘The Sound of Music’?
The New York Times – Movies:For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.
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Can a New Museum Persuade Austria to Finally Love ‘The Sound of Music’?
The New York Times – Movies:For decades, Salzburg residents dismissed the hit musical as kitsch. Now, a dedicated space aims to reconcile movie myth and local history.