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  1. Suffolkgal
    Saw her often at the Nureyev festival. A lovely legacy. Rest in peace.
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    Mao’s last wife made a spirited attempt to cancel classical ballet as we know it as Imperialist.
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    Does anyone remember the bbc series Fall of Eagles which dramatised these tragic events among many others?
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    this is going to be as much fun as the Nutcracker-world-shortage-of-glitter theme last year!
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    i'd love to go but it's tech day for Irving Stage Company's Hello, Dolly - shameless plug - but honestly i hope there might be some streaming of this or something along those lines, and I look forward to reading about it here. Mind you train strikes mean i probably could not have gone anyway! what a tempting programme though ...
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    Anyone else go back far enough to remember him waiting with us in floral street?
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    Thanks for the Flickr link - was slightly reminded of the great Irek in the Matthew Ball images. And - great hat mr Bracewell! I think whatever liberties Macmillan took with the story the overall picture of misery and grief in that family was accurate. The Empress Sophie essentially kept the children from Sissi so she just went off on her own path. She was a child when she married, really.
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    Sight and sound rain!
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    how true. I've just re-read her autobiography - few dancers created so many works with so many different choreographers, and her approach to the art is just fascinating. She's wonderful about Nureyev and he was clearly a great and true friend to her. what an utter and absolute tragedy that the original R and J in the Macmillan ballet were never caught on film. i remember her being interviewed about the role she created in Mayerling - it might have been in the BBC doc about the RB at 50 - and saying "she's a bit of a social climber, not a terrific person" - i loved that! and somewhere in the dark recesses of my memory is that her dress came to pieces in one of the pdd and yards of fine tulle enveloped them both. I may have made that up though - may be a completely different story! I can't really imagine anyone other than Seymour having created Mary for Macmillan.
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    This may sit here? Just noticed the lovely pairing of Bracewell and Kaneko on the RB calendar for 2023 ... given it was one of my highlights of the season
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    Through family links I grew up knowing him and then one lunch in the 80s we fell out over Wayne Eagling’s legs! Apropos of nothing that is (Wayne had fab legs!) but I don’t think anyone who makes these decisions will take any notice. His arguments are ludicrously simplistic and ill thought out and I say that as someone who lives in Suffolk! Actually transport is the massive issue for access to the arts near home and coming into town! West to East Suffolk at night in the winter?
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    to be honest i was just thinking about a younger member of the family taking it on for all sort of reasons - but whomsoever it is, good to see from comments above the support for the arts continues...
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    Given his mother’s love for the ballet - she so often just used to come in to performances as I’m sure we all recall - I wonder if the Prince or maybe Princess of Wales will take the Royal Ballet companies? There would be a synergy there
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    Slightly off this topic - but I’ve just been going through my ballet archives and found my Nureyev Festival programmes. Forgot I had them but remember the shows very clearly - especially R and J. Lovely production with more nods to the text than some other versions
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    Thankyou!!!
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    Anyone else remember a tiny gala piece with two little girls in yellow portraying the York princesses as were? I think the composer (Coates? am checking) and saw them playing in their garden from the top deck of a bus. Maybe the Queen Mother gala that included Rhapsody? Help! Am I totally off kilter?
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    It is weird. Personally I think it all links to the current fear of saying or doing the wrong thing and bring castigated or cancelled! The media is casting about for people to criticise which really hacks me off (pun intended) when there is such a united mood of love and respect. If Fleet Street was still a thing I’d stand there going Stop it!!! No one cares for your opinions just cover the facts! And I speak as a journalist (though not in the media for years) and child of two old Fleet Street hands now in the great composing room above.
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    I appreciate the sentiment about the curtains, but the royal family and royal line continues now and that enduring line is what the Queen stood for. I know it will be a shock and sadness to see it change but it is due to her stoicism and sense of duty that it can. If you see what I mean. Maybe they can name part of the House after her.
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    My personal opinion is the the very last person who would have wanted the last night of the proms cancelled is HM The Queen. Being joyful is not disrespectful.
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    picking up those reduced price tickets is really only ever possible i think for people near London - I had to arrange my work diary and book trains and so on, so had no option but to book ages ago. Very annoying i must say.
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    From across the board I am hearing nothing is selling - sales down at least 25% and usually closer to 40% with very few exceptions. I agree about the number of shows for this - Drury Lane is a big house to fill. I don't think I've ever seen ballet there so that will be interesting. Next couple of years are going to be very hard for performing arts in the wake of the last two very hard years. And once again I can only suggest the RB programme is short of crowd-pleasers and works that might in entice tourists and visitors looking for a treat on holiday.
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    Really very interesting evening, William B (apart from his many talents as a dancer and actor) has a winning combination of humility and great respect for other artists/ teachers/coaches/choreographers, and a very clear ambition and confidence to achieve and be the artist he wants to be. Sorry, very long sentence! He’s also so appreciative and grateful and so enjoying life. I’ve let the association slip out of my life for far too many years but will definitely endeavour to return often.
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    Tick box. Gotta do the ‘engagement’ to get the public dosh! Pay a costly agency to devise the questions and collect the data. Done with so many agendas behind it I am guessing!
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    Ronald Hynd is 91 how wonderful to have all that experience to hear!
  25. Suffolkgal
    Love them both hope they have a long and happy life together
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