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Thanks very much, TTP! Believe it or not, I actually recorded the Kenneth MacMillan Desert Island Discs when it was aired in 1983 - on my treasured old cassette recorder with the separate microphone pointing at the radio, and hoping that no-one would come into the room during the programme... those were the days. During the first lockdown last year, I found the tape and wondered if it would still work; it did, for a while, and I was really enjoying listening to it; then, KM's voice gradually started getting higher and higher and faster and faster until towards the end he sounded as if he was f
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I've just finished watching it (for the first time). Yes, it must have been a very daunting role to play! I thought Anne-Marie Duff did as well as possible considering that she's not a dancer. I found it very odd though because I'm so familiar with Fonteyn and Nureyev et al that it felt a bit as if I was watching people acting members of my family! So I didn't for a minute believe that I was actually watching them. (Though Derek Jacobi was surprisingly convincing as Ashton.) But although I took it all with a very large pinch of salt, in the end I thought it did give at least some sort of idea
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What's your favourite 'lovey' ballet?
bridiem replied to ToThePointe's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
But apparently Mayerling also had its première on Valentine's Day! (1978). Maybe says something about the differing approaches of Ashton and MacMillan to the same subject...- 51 replies
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I feel as if the nation's grandfather has died. May he now become our guardian angel. RIP
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Happy New Year From The Mods
bridiem replied to Sim's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Yes - what has been until now a great joy and luxury has become a vital essential. -
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.....
bridiem replied to Richard LH's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Happy Christmas to everyone, and thanks for ensuring that even with hardly any live performances ballet was still a huge part of my life in 2020. -
The Lilac Fairy intervening at Mayerling so Mary and Rudolf just have a nice long sleep? Drosselmeyer making the trees grow at the Sleeping Beauty palace? Puck sprinkling Juliet's eyes so she falls in love with Paris?
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RB Nutcracker Winter 2020/21
bridiem replied to Silke H's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Millions of us will be alone on the 25th. Knowing that brings a sense of solidarity and even comfort, to me and I hope to others.- 139 replies
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RB Nutcracker Winter 2020/21
bridiem replied to Silke H's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
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Not to me! I loved Ballet Shoes, but for some reason it's Curtain Up that I return to time and time again. Something about the wartime setting, I think. I've read it so often there are bits I almost know by heart!!