By Robert Gottlieb 7/26/04 12:00am

A Rare Orgy of Ashton Lets Us Share the Love

The recent two-week Frederick Ashton celebration at the Met, in honor of his 100th birthday, has been thrilling, moving, illuminating, yet in some ways disappointing. We in America have been on a thin diet of Ashton for many years (even his own company, the Royal Ballet, has been on strict rations). Granted that dancing Ashton Read More

By Charles Michener 2/08/99 12:00am

L.S.O. Is Wonderful, but Elgar Makes Me Scream ‘Enough!’

During the recent Lincoln Center festival celebrating the music of Edward Elgar, I was reminded of a remark that Rudyard Kipling, the composer’s contemporary and kindred spirit, once made about a writer whose name I can’t remember: The fellow, Kipling said, was guilty of “compulsive vividness.” We were somewhere toward the end of a masterly Read More