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Each season of City Ballet The Podcast features episodes that span three topics: New Combinations hosted by Associate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan, Hear the Dance hosted by dance educator and former NYCB dancer Silas Farley, and See the Music hosted by Music Director Andrew Litton.
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Hear the Dance returns with guest host Jared Angle in conversation with former NYCB Principal Dancer Kyra Nichols. Nichols shares how having a dancer mother (former Company Member Sally Streets) has influenced her career; what it was like enrolling at the School of American Ballet at age 11; and the ways in which what she learned as a performer shapes her current work as a Professor at Indiana University. Her words of wisdom for this spring's dancers in the lead Spring role she originated in Jerome Robbins' The Four Seasons? "Have fun." (45:22)
Written by Jared Angle Edited by Emilie Silvestri
Music: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1931) by Igor Stravinsky I Vespri Siciliani (Les vêpres siciliennes) (1855) by Giuseppe Verdi I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (1843) by Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore (1853) by Giuseppe Verdi Symphony No. 1 in C major (1855) by Georges Bizet Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (1837) by Robert Schumann All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra
Associate Music Director Andrews Sill voyages into the beguiling score of George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky's Orpheus in the latest See the Music episode. As Stravinsky describes, in a 1949 radio interview, Orpheus is a "long, sustained, slow chant," that utilizes ancient modes and inspirations without directly imitating ancient music. With select excerpts and piano demonstrations, Sills describes Stravinsky's use of a "rare form of kleptomania" to create an undeniably modern yet timeless sound. (16:13)
Edited by Emilie Silvestri
Interview excerpt from "Stravinsky Visits WQXR with Orpheus" by WQXR Features (1949)
Music: Orpheus (1947) by Igor Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements (1945) by Igor Stravinsky
All music performed by New York City Ballet Orchestra.
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