simonbfisher Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I can't track one down anywhere - can anyone point me in the right direction? The clips of Reilly and Eichwald on YouTube are tantalising ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 alas, no DVD. Such a beautiful ballet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonbfisher Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 I fear you may be right, Katherine. Such a shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 I vaguely remember a VHS version from decades ago; no idea if it's available anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Hello, Melody! Welcome to the Forum. I do hope we hear more from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Why care to see it - Voluntaries is "by no means universally admired and often considered unmusical and manipulative", as we can read in Alastair Macaulay's review today It's a beautiful, deep, earnest ballet (and indeed very musical!), I've seen it often at Stuttgart. I've never heard about a recording, sorry! By the way: what's a "manipulative" ballet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Thank you, Janet! Been lurking for a while - very impressed with the depth of knowledge here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Why care to see it - Voluntaries is "by no means universally admired and often considered unmusical and manipulative", as we can read in Alastair Macaulay's review today It's a beautiful, deep, earnest ballet (and indeed very musical!), I've seen it often at Stuttgart. I've never heard about a recording, sorry! By the way: what's a "manipulative" ballet?? OMG what is that man on?????? "by no means universally admired" clearly means, "I, AM, do not like it". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) Well, seriously, is anything universally admired? I thought Voluntaries was wonderful - saw it several times at ROH in the 1970s in a triple bill with Month in the Country and something else I've forgotten. I don't normally particularly like abstract ballets with minimal costume and scenery but I was always ready to make an exception for that one. I've done a bit of searching and come up with a link (which apparently I can't post because this forum won't let me paste stuff I've copied) to a VHS in the Worldcat database (just google on Tetley Voluntaries VHS). There's a recording by the Pacific Northwest Ballet in 1991; the information is as follows: Videotaped in performance at Seattle Center Opera House, Seattle, Washington, March 23, 1991. Choreography: Glen Tetley, assisted by Scott Douglas. Music, Francis Poulenc (Concerto for organ, strings, and timpani); Scenery/costumes: Rouben Ter-Arutunian; Lighting: Randall G. Chiarelli. Performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet: Patricia Barker and Thordal Christensen, with Colleen Neary, Stirling Kekoa, and Benkjamin Houk, and others. OCLC number (whatever the heck that is): 80124214. 31 min, NTSC. Might be worth contacting Pacific Northwest Ballet to see if they have a spare copy or know where one might be found. It's possible (at least it was possible a few years ago) to convert from NTSC to PAL and to put stuff from a videocassette onto DVD. The quality won't be great but it'll probably be better than YouTube. Edited February 3, 2014 by Melody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Is this the link Melody? http://www.worldcat.org/title/glen-tetley/oclc/034781257 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 (edited) No, I think that's a more general Tetley programme that shows excerpts from several ballets. Let me find it and post it longhand. I remember finding the one you posted if I included "Glen" in the search - I found the other one with just Tetley Voluntaries VHS. Sometimes I really wonder about Google. Here it is: http://worldcat.org/title/voluntaries-videorecording/oclc/80124214 BTW, is there a reason I can't paste stuff? Do you have to have a certain number of posts or something? Edited February 3, 2014 by Melody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Not as far as I am aware Melody. I know some people have had problems recently posting from word documents and I've found it slower than usual recently. There was a query raised recently here: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/5539-cannot-copy-clipboard-into-text-window-since-win-7-update/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonbfisher Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Great researching, Melody, thank you ... I'll certainly pursue this via PNB! In the meantime I have contacted the Stuttgart Ballet, just in case, and they confirmed that they do not have any recording of Voluntaries. It's funny, I have got so used (even though I am NOT a young and adept computer-user), to being able to find anything I want - usually via You Tube - that I'm unreasonably miffed when I can't. It's hard to remember what it was like not so long ago when you had to write letters to get information, and even VHS was not really obtainable for the ordinary (pace Darcey) "punter"! We really are spoiled ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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