The musicians, who have hundreds of songs in their repertories, love to chat up the crowd between numbers and share an uncanny knack for repeatedly welcoming individual patrons by their regions of origin.
In the repertory are love songs, songs about deeds of derring-do and traditional religious airs.
Baryshnikov has made another point about Ratmansky's retrievals of his native repertory: "He loves Russian music, and for him everything comes from music.
Boris Eifman, one of Russia's most controversial choreographers, has returned to New York with a repertory reflecting his love of strong dramatic passions.
She appeared to be conservative in the commissioning of new works; she didn't chase after international choreographers such as Mark Morris and Alexei Ratmansky and in programming her seasons she favoured, perhaps too heavily, the MacMillan repertory that she loved.
I'd been watching his sixties films at repertory houses, and loved the ones I (partly) understood: "Breathless," "My Life to Live," "A Woman Is a Woman," "Band of Outsiders," "Weekend".
THERE used to be a theory of Western music that great works -- which according to this theory will often be derided when they are new, and if they do indeed so offend, will only thereby prove their greatness -- eventually take their places in the repertory and are loved by all.
I love this repertory, and Schwarz's program led me to dive back into some favorite recordings.
For a theatrically trained actor with a love of repertory, the role of Murdock offered Schultz what he considered an ideal opportunity: the chance to gain the high visibility of a TV series without having to repeat the same characterization every week.
