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Article: ASO PERFORMANCE HELPS SET REGIONAL STANDARD FOR BALLET.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 16, 1996
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Byline: RON EMERY Special to the Times Union
ALBANY -- For the first time, the Albany Symphony Orchestra included a performance of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's complete ballet ``The Nutcracker'' on its eight-concert subscription series this season.
Conducted by Music Director David Alan Miller, the performance Saturday night at the Palace Theatre accompanied Capital Ballet's lavish production of founding director David Otto's choreography ``after Balanchine,'' referring to George Balanchine's epic 1954 restaging for the New York City Ballet.
The music for the character dances at the beginning of Act 2 of ``The Nutcracker'' is some of the most ...