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Elisa Badenes and Friedemann Vogel in “Mayerling” by Kenneth MacMillan. Photograph credit: Stuttgart Ballet
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It was a picture-perfect evening at the Hollywood Bowl for music and dance under the stars. The last concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s classical series, it was to have featured conductor and former Dudamel Fellow, Jonathan Heyward, but the Franco-British maestra, Stephanie Childress, led the ensemble instead.
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The lobby of the Ace Hotel Boerum Hill is an excellent place to work, particularly in the room with the long table and library lamps.
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The life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky does not lack melodramatic potential. The composer of ballet classics such as “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” was celebrated by Imperial Russia for his compositions yet simultaneously forced to hide his homosexuality.
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I’m not weathering well. Are you? Individually and globally, it seems to me the last five years left many of us in a vague sort of freefall, in a theatrum mundi that becomes more and more desperate.
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