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Article: Play On!(New York City Ballet had to use recorded music)(Brief Article)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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IF MUSIC BE the food of dance, play on! Well, neither Shakespeare's Count Orsino nor New York City Ballet's George Balanchine actually said that, but I imagine both of them might have done. Perhaps we treat music a tad too casually in the dance world, sometimes taking it for granted as if it were merely the umpty-trumpty trampoline of our art, the rhythmic punctuation and, at times, emotional coloration of our dance.
The dance world in general, and New York City Ballet in particular, had a wake-up call when the City Ballet Orchestra went on strike (technically, I think it was a lockout, but with the labor relations who really knows?) and, for a week or so, at the ...