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Wall Street Journal
22-04-2025
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- Wall Street Journal
‘Rachmaninoff Reborn' Review: A Russian in the New World on PBS
Russia never gets enough credit for its generosity, having donated so many of the best and brightest to the rest of the world for well over a century. Nabokov, Nureyev, Solzhenitsyn, countless Ukrainians, my friend Zach on the Upper West Side—they've all fled the Soviet and post-Soviet realms, enriching the rest of the world in countless ways. Among the more prominent of these exiles is the subject of 'Rachmaninoff Reborn,' which is partly biographical and partly about how the New World forged a new man out of one of the Old World's greatest composers. As related in the latest episode of 'Now Hear This'—the now-six-season-old series hosted by violinist Scott Yoo and an always entertaining entrée to classical music—Sergei Rachmaninoff was born into affluence in 1873, and became a New Yorker after fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. This is shorthand: The globe-trotting Rachmaninoff, the last of the great Russian romantic composers, made a circuitous route to America after leaving home. But he did, at age 44, reinvent himself as a concert pianist and became one of the most successful performing artists of the early 20th century. That itself is no small thing.
South China Morning Post
24-03-2025
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- South China Morning Post
Mariinsky Ballet's Maria Khoreva dazzles in Rudolf Nureyev tribute at Hong Kong festival
More than 30 years after his untimely death in 1993, Rudolf Nureyev's name has lost none of its magic. Nureyev & Friends – A Ballet Gala Tribute revisits a project Nureyev himself created in which a group of dancers would tour with a programme of short pieces, presenting top-notch ballet around the world. Advertisement The repertoire consisted of works drawn from Nureyev's career. It ranged from the familiar, with some of ballet's most famous pas de deux, to lesser-known pieces and featured some of Nureyev's own choreography, making for an interestingly eclectic programme. Fittingly, the performers included dancers from the three companies with which Nureyev was most closely associated: the Paris Opera Ballet, Britain's Royal Ballet and what is now St Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet – Leningrad's Kirov Ballet when Nureyev was there. After its initial revival in Vienna in 2024, this first Asian edition had as artistic adviser Paris Opera Ballet 'Étoile' Charles Jude, a protégé of Nureyev who danced in those original tours; the artistic director was former Royal Ballet principal David Makhateli; and the project manager was Hong Kong's own Lam Chun-wing , the first Chinese dancer to join the Paris Opera Ballet. Mathieu Ganio, formerly of Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the troupe's star ballerinas, Dorothée Gilbert, dance the duet from Act IV of Swan Lake as part of Nureyev & Friends – a Ballet Gala Tribute. Photo: Tony Luk, courtesy of the Hong Kong Arts Festival Galas are, inevitably, a lucky dip – some of the dancing was sublime, some good; if some was disappointing, the high points made up for it.
