We're launching a new season of City Ballet The Podcast with an enlightening Hear the Dance conversation on Jerome Robbins' Antique Epigraphs. Host Silas Farley is joined by former NYCB dancers and original cast members Maria Calegari and Heléne Alexopoulos, and current Repertory Director Rebecca Krohn, who performed several roles in the work and now coaches today's performers. They describe learning this lyrical ballet, following the delicate Debussy score through its unique solos and romantic passages for the cast of "eight glamorous women." (49:32)
Written by Silas Farley
Edited by Emilie Silvestri
Music:
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (1931) by Igor Stravinsky
Six Epigraphes Antiques (1915), orchestrated by Ernest Ansermet (1932) and Syrinx (1912)
All music performed by New York City Ballet Orchestra
Reading List:
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill
Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir by Jerome Robbins Edited by Amanda Vaill
Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography by François Lesure, Translated by Marie Rolf
Documenting: Lighting Design (Performing Arts Resources, Vol. 25) Jennifer Tipton, Contributing Author
