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Music Theatre for Young People Senior Show. 7:30 p.m. June 2, 2:30 p.m. June 3; closes June 3. www.mtyp.org (913-341-8156)
Comedy show titled "Seth Rudetsky Tells You Everything You Wanted to Know About the Tonys: A sassy, savvy tell-all with Broadway's funniest insider!" www.mtyp.org (816-235-6222)
The first week finds us moving with Stella Sung’s delicate Japanese-inspired Dance of the White Lotus under the Silver Moon for harp and piano and Maurice Ravel’s stunning miniature concerto for harp, the Introduction and Allegro. Following Felix Mendelssohn’s Konzertstücke No. 2, we turn...
Our second week opens with a look back to older dances with one of Rameau’s early 18th century collections in his Pieces de Clavecin. Bohuslav Martinů continues the historical perspective by bringing the harpsichord to dance with the flute and violin in modern harmonies in Promenades. After...
When our opening composer for the third week, Igor Stravinsky, decided to have the hero of Histoire du Soldat heal an ailing princess, he demonstrated her recovery by having her dance not only a tango, but a waltz and ragtime dance as well. But where Stravinsky mixed magic and music, Claude...
Our final week invites you to bring along a partner for Luigi Boccherini’s impression of the lively couples’ dance the “Fandango” from his Guitar Quintet No. 4 before the great Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla takes us through four scenes in the evolution of the scandalous dance from...
