MACMILLAN, Kenneth: 3 Ballets - Concerto / Elite Syncopations / The Judas Tree (Royal Ballet, 2010)

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Elite Syncopations
Composer: Joplin, Scott
Choreographer: MacMillan, Kenneth


Conductor: Clark, Robert
Television Director: MacGibbon, Ross
Lighting Designer: Read, John B.
Costume Designer: Spurling, Ian

The Judas Tree
Composer: Elias, Brian
Choreographer: MacMillan, Kenneth


Television Director: MacGibbon, Ross
Lighting Designer: Henderson, Mark
Set/Stage Designer: McFadyen, Jock
Costume Designer: McFadyen, Jock

Concerto
Choreographer: MacMillan, Kenneth


Conductor: Grier, Dominic
Television Director: MacGibbon, Ross
Lighting Designer: Read, John B.
Set/Stage Designer: Rose, Jurgen
Costume Designer: Rose, Jurgen

Date of Concert: 24-03-2010
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Playing Time: 01:46:05
Catalogue Number: OA1038D
UPC: 809478010388

MacMillan's vision has been vital in shaping The Royal Ballet's style and repertory, and what better way to appreciate his art than with this rare chance to experience three contrasting works in a single performance. Abstract, dramatic, humorous – this programme gives a wonderfully varied introduction not just to MacMillan's work but to the beauty and dramatic power of ballet itself. Concerto, to Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, contrasts moments of exuberance and elegiac reflection. The Judas Tree places a single woman among 13 men to enact a harrowing event that is recognizably contemporary but with biblical overtones. Elite Syncopations completes the programme with a sparkling evocation of a dance hall that brings ragtime rhythms to the dance, and a ragtime band to the stage.

Bonus features:

- Introductions by Deborah MacMillan

Part 1

Elite Syncopations
1
Sunflower Slow Drag
2
Elite Syncopations
3
The Cascades
4
Hot-House Rag
5
Calliope Rag
6
Ragtime Nightingale
7
The Golden Hours
8
Stop Time Rag
9
The Alaskan Rag
10
Bethena (concert waltz)
11
Friday Night
12
Cataract Rag
13
Credits

Part 2

The Judas Tree
1
Opening
2
The woman arrives
3
The men react
4
The friend
5
The foreman
6
The other friend
7
Two workmen fight
8
The workmen
9
The woman and the foreman
10
The woman and the friend
11
The woman and the workmen
12
The friends
13
The workmen
14
Credits

Part 3

Concerto
1
Opening
2
First movement
3
Second movement
4
Third movement
5
Credits

Part 4

Introduction to Elite Syncopations

Part 5

Introduction to The Judas Tree

Part 6

Introduction to Concerto

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