'Seven Sonatas,' with its flowing series of meetings between men and women in an identifiable emotional world, is in the mould of Jerome Robbins' glorious 'Dances at a Gathering.'
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I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.
My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?
It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas.
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