Better danced than on opening night, this excerpt showed a fine coherence and Frederic Franklin's staging has none of the added detail from Soviet versions now standard in other productions.
The concert opened with excerpts from piano arrangements of other Stravinsky ballets: the "Danse Infernale" from "The Firebird" (featuring Ms. Lin) and the finale of "Petrushka" (with Mr. Ahuvia and Ms. Ho).
The programme opened with excerpts from two of the interviews prior to the title sequence, followed by an introduction from Jonathan Dimbleby, who told viewers that the evidence presented in the programme was "of critical importance for those who wish to find out what really happened in Gibraltar last month".
Fortunately, he and Ms. Ferri have toned down the violent accents they gave the final duet as an excerpt on opening night.
This is an edited excerpt of opening remarks from Occupy the SEC's 325-page submission to the SEC, FDIC, the Federal Reserve and the OCC, which comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking for the Volcker Rule.
Ms. Koh played the opening measures of the Allemande, Courant and Sarabande from a Westhoff suite, alternating the excerpts with opening measures of the corresponding movements by Bach.
Chateau Chunder: When Australian Wine Changed the World (BBC4) opened with an excerpt from a classic Monty Python audio sketch called Australian Table Wines.
The new recording opens with an excerpt from President John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech at Rice University advocating for a manned space program.
The evening opened with an excerpt from "Memory Bank" by Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, who created an ingenious trompe l'oeil fusion of physical and video-image bodies that was a little like high-tech Alwin Nikolais.
Lynn Nottage's satire "Fabulation or, the Re-Education of Undine" opens, in the excerpt below, with Ms. Calles (portrayed by Charlayne Woodard) in her element -- working the phones to organize an event, in this case a benefit to raise money for fallopian tube blockage.
