As an encore, he offered the final two tableaux from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition".
During the first work, Stravinsky's "Apollo," a ballet in two tableaus, the musicians looked and sounded a little demoralized, though this may have been the impression left by the super-refined approach that Charles Dutoit, the chief conductor, took to this delicately textured Neo-Classical score.
Breaking the spell in two tableaus were large ensembles of the Lucinda Childs Dance Company.
One tableau, for example, included a Sami (Lapp) family with reindeer and sledge.
In one tableau Claes Oldenburg's hand-sewn "Giant BLT (Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich)" keeps company with a knobby ceramic piece by Peter Voulkos and a "scrap chair," made of irregular wedges of cypress, by J. B. Blunk.
(Picture book; ages 7 to 12) This heart-on-its-sleeve collaboration between writer father and illustrator son mixes stirring verse with expressive panoramas that mix thematic events across time: African slaves, Chinese railroad laborers and Detroit factory workers in one tableau.
Matejko combined three key parts of the battle into one tableau: an opportunistic attack by German knight Kökeritz on Jagiełło, the death of the Grand Master, and the taking of the Teutonic camp (in the top left corner).
There are eight tableaux, each recording a stage in the life of the saint.
The three tableaux made by Brian Griffiths out of cardboard, paper and polythene are more mysterious.
There will be seven tableaus in all, although no single tour will visit every site.
