Algernon Ashton News
English Composer and Piano Teacher (1859-1937)
- piano
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- composer, pianist, music teacher, diarist
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2024-04-25
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2024-01-04 08:12:00
Les Noces re-imagined: New Movement Collective presents a new choreographic version of Stravinsky's ballet
[…] of completions of the various torsos left behind by Stravinsky, including a version for large orchestra and one for cimbaloms and pianola.For the premiere in 1923, choreography was by Nijinsky's sister, Bronislava and like Stravinsky changing his sound-world, Nijinska's choreography embodied a very different world to her brother's ballets. Les Noces was her third Stravinsky ballet following Mavra and Renard. In 1928, Nijinska was the choreographer for Ida Rubenstein's company in Paris when a young English dancer, Frederick Ashton, joined the company, was mentored by Nijinska and danced some of her ballets. Cut to 1960s London and Ashton became director of the Royal Ballet in 1963, having previously been the company's resident choreographer. He invited Nijinska to stage her ballets at the Royal Ballet, the result was a pair of historically important stagings, Les Biches (to music by Poulenc) and Les Noces.On 13 and 14 January 2024, the dance company New Movement Collective is […]
2023-09-19 08:31:00
18th Malcolm Arnold Festival
Photo montage - Wise Music; (photo permissions © Fritz Curzon Photography, ©June Mendoza)The 18th Malcolm Arnold Festival, celebrating Northampton's colourful and charismatic son, returns in October with a weekend of live events and a digital live-stream. On 14 and 15 October, Northampton will be filled with Arnold-related musical events. John Gibbons conducts the Northampton Symphony Orchestra in a concert that includes a suite from Arnold's 1954 ballet, Rinaldo and Armida (choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton), and Hilary Davan Wetton conducts the LGT String Orchestra (an ensemble featuring highly talented young soloists between the ages of 13 and 23 from over 20 nations) in a programme that include Arnold's Oboe Concerto with Melanie Ragge and his Serenade for Guitar and Strings with Hugh Millington.Throughout weekend there are performances given by The Enderby Band, the Nick Budd Brass Quintet and Northamptonshire County Youth Concert Band featuring Arnold's music for brass and wind, and there […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-07-05 15:15:31
[…] London by the Thames. At 5ft 2in (“and shrinking”) he’s voluble, cheeky, full of laughter, skittering across topics and off on tangents. Close-cropped white hair has long replaced the shaggy 70s curls. Though not as spry as he once was, he’ll still get up and dance to demonstrate whatever he’s talking about. The house, which he shares with husband Jose Bergera, is filled with photos of Sleep in his favourite roles – from choreographers Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, John Neumeier, Jerome Robbins; as Mr Mistoffelees in the original Cats and there are snapshots of Sleep with friends: one shows him smiling with his arms round Elton John and Freddie Mercury at Live Aid.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-04-24 13:18:49
Royal Opera House, LondonSteven McRae returns from injury to the role he’d made his own in Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody, while two other Ashton works make up an evening of playful combinations and beautifully delineated emotions In 2019, Steven McRae snapped his achilles tendon mid-show. After surgery and intensive rehab he returned to the stage earlier this season and tonight was performing a signature role in Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody: a bravura showpiece that tests speed, virtuosity, and certainly the strength of one’s achilles.Before that finale, however, two more Ashton works make a triple bill by the Royal Ballet’s founding choreographer. Ashton’s dance is full of playfulness: unexpected combinations, changes of direction, descriptive details in the hands – even in a serious piece such as A Month in the Country, inspired by an Ivan Turgenev play and the standout of the evening. The wonderful, soulful Laura Morera is Petrovna, the listless young wife […]
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