The weakest number was the last, the Pennsylvania Ballet's presentation of excerpts from Matthew Neenan's setting of recorded songs by Rufus Wainwright.
Starting tonight for the sixth year in a row, the New York City Opera is providing this opportunity through VOX: Showcasing American Composers, its free presentation of excerpts from new, unperformed American operas.
The first presentation was an excerpt from the stage play of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". I was hooked from there out — the speeches that followed offered advice, pitched a science-fiction screenplay and revealed extremely personal stories of careers, successes and failures.
They were instructed to respond to the first presentation of the excerpt as fast as possible, but only if they were certain about what they heard.
Several unreviewed dancers appeared in the presentation, which emphasized excerpts from longer pieces.
This free midday presentation will include excerpts from two new works for the ensemble: a trio from Askegard's work-in-process "Cockaigne," set to music by John Zorn, and a pas de deux created by Margo Sappington for Askegard and Jennie Somogyi (of New York City Ballet).
During my presentation, I played excerpts from the CBS Evening News announcement of the death of Walter Cronkite and of Pres.
This was no star turn by a diva but a presentation of four challenging excerpts from operas by Richard Strauss and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Here is an excerpt from the presentation (you can also watch the video, which is a bit more detailed).
His comments here are excerpted from his presentation to the Berggruen Institute's recent 21st Century Council meeting in Beijing.
Vilhuber, Lars; Abowd, John M. This is an excerpt from a prior presentation at the Society of Labor Economists (2016).
