Cd Reviews: Pigeons Need Fans ; Birmingham Royal Ballet Birmingham Hippodrome
Birmingham Post › June 12, 2004
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Triple -or, in this case -double bills still fail to attract audiences, judging by a more than half empty Hippodrome on Thursday. And yet Frederick Ashton'sThe Two Pigeons is a sure-fire crowd pleaser and Dante Sonata may well be on the way to becoming so.
Ashton prepared this ballet in the grim days of 1940 when Britain was suffering from air raids, rationing and the general depression of a war.See the full content of this document
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Cd Reviews: Pigeons Need Fans ; Birmingham Royal Ballet Birmingham Hippodrome
Whether the ballet can be accepted nowadays in the wider context of social shame and sadness is some...
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