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What every pianist needs to know about the body. Techniques on how to gain greater fluidity of movement while playing to improve the quality of the experience are offered in this manual for serious piano players.
It has become a rarity for ballet companies to present works by women, despite the large number of women in the field and the pioneers of the 20th century.
Women continue to be underrepresented in many positions of power in the arts, whether as directors in Hollywood, orchestra conductors, opera composers or even late-night television hosts. But the dearth of female choreographers at major ballet companies is perhaps more startling, given the prominence of women in the rest of the ballet and dance fields — and the way pioneering female choreographers helped shape ballet during the 20th century.
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Spanish heat and gypsy passion are brought to the stage in Francesca Zambello’s vivid production of Bizet’s opera.
Five concertmasters are making a cool half-million bucks:
1 New York Philharmonic: $615,924
2 San Francisco Symphony: $563,745
3 Los Angeles Philharmonic: $554,209
4 Chicago Symphony: $549,794
5 Cleveland Orchestra: $503,573
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