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Article: SYMPHONY: FUSING SIGHT AND SOUND ORCHESTRA PLAYS STARRING ROLE IN "ALEXANDER NEVSKY" DRAMA.(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 30, 1996
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Byline: CRAIG SHAPIRO, STAFF WRITER
COMICS AND QUARTERBACKS aren't the only ones versed in the value of timing. Music directors place a premium on it, too.
This weekend, JoAnn Falletta will stay on her toes. She's steering the Virginia Symphony through ``Alexander Nevsky,'' the 1938 collaboration between the great Russian film pioneer Sergei Eisenstein and the great Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.
While the heroics of the 13th century prince and his peasant army unreel on a wide screen at Chrysler Hall, the orchestra plays a starring role in the drama - a fusion of sight and sound, just as the project was conceived.
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