This sounds like a very enjoyable evening, but one Haglund will have to skip 'cuz he's getting a brand new hip this week and won't be ready to negotiate the Carnegie Hall seats for a while. Wow, ballet at Carnegie Hall – how often does that happen?
New York City Ballet soloist Adam Hendrickson's new ballet will premiere
at Yale's
Sprague Memorial Hall on Feb. 8, 2010 at 8pm, and also will be presented at Carnegie Hall's Zankle
Hall Feb. 9th, 2010 at 8pm as part of a program featuring pianist Boris
Berman.
Hendrickson's ballet is part of a program that will feature
recently discovered Prokofiev work, all played by pianist Boris Berman. The
ballet was commissioned by Yale University's School of Music, and features
dancers Elysia Dawn, Colby Damon and Matt Renko, with costumes by New York City
Ballet principal, Janie Taylor. Hendrickson's last ballet, with music by Aaron
Severini, was in 2008 as part of the New York City Dancer's Choice event.
For interviews, or press tickets please contact: Deborah Broide, (973) 744-2030,
[email protected]
Excerpts from the official press release:
David Shifrin, Artistic Director
presents
Prokofiev
Rediscovered
Premieres and Rarities
Pianist and Prokofiev
specialist Boris Berman joins the Yale School of Music’s
exceptional students,
alumni, and faculty in an all-Prokofiev program
Fragment from the opera Distant Seas (World Premiere)
Music for Athletic
Exercises (New York Premiere) with original choreography by
NYCB's
Adam Hendrickson
Music for the ballet Trapeze (New York Premiere)
Schubert waltzes
transcribed by Prokofiev for two pianos (seldom performed)
Tuesday, February 9 at
7:30 p.m.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Tickets: $15, $20, $25; students $10, $15,
$20
The Zankel Hall concert will showcase three recently discovered Prokofiev works:
a fragment from the opera Distant Seas (1948) receives its world premiere,
while Music for Athletic Exercises (1939) and the complete
music from the ballet Trapeze (1924) will be heard in New York for the first
time. In addition, Boris Berman will be joined by the dean of the Yale School
of Music Robert
Blocker in a rarely heard two-piano arrangement of a suite
of Schubert
waltzes.