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Article: Paul Taylor Dance Company.(City Center, New York, New York)
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- Dance Magazine
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- July 1, 1997
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CITY CENTER FEBRUARY 25-MARCH 9, 1997
My last Paul Taylor report on these pages, concerning the fall 1993 season, opened with the depressing news that the grand old boy of modern dance was reduced to presenting his grand new (and old) dances to canned music. This time I am pleased to announce that the canned music has been put back in the can, and a group of musicians called the New York Metamorphoses Orchestra has been put in City Center's pit. Except in cases where Taylor created his dances specifically to recorded music, all the season's music was performed live. If the playing was not always pristine, the music still sprang forth with a life in which even the ...