Ian Macmillan Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Did we know that Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé will be performing a "bespoke piece of choreography" at the Concert in Windsor on May 7th? https://www.classical-music.com/news/coronation-concert-will-feature-ballet-opera-and-shakespeare/ 9 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 I certainly didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Neither did I. I wonder who the choreographer is? I hope Sambe will be recovered enough to participate. What an experience! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 I’ll be watching live from my home in San Juan! Big weekend! 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 Best wishes to the featured dancers…in whatever they may be performing…have the ballet and choreographer been revealed? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolkgal Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 Hopefully it will get on camera this time! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 1 hour ago, Jeannette said: I’ll be watching live from my home in San Juan! Big weekend! 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 🎉 🥳 Best wishes to the featured dancers…in whatever they may be performing…have the ballet and choreographer been revealed? Looks like it's going to be a 'collab', as the young people say! This from I News: It has also been announced that performers from the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art will come together for the first time. They will create a one-off performance based around themes of love and togetherness, featuring an arrangement of a classic song from West Side Story, bespoke choreography and a visual backdrop projected onto Windsor Castle. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 59 minutes ago, Sim said: Looks like it's going to be a 'collab', as the young people say! This from I News: It has also been announced that performers from the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal College of Music and the Royal College of Art will come together for the first time. They will create a one-off performance based around themes of love and togetherness, featuring an arrangement of a classic song from West Side Story, bespoke choreography and a visual backdrop projected onto Windsor Castle. So a West Side Story “redo”? Nothing classical…grrrr…. I was thinking the main pdd from Ashton’s Homage to the King, redone. Silly me! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Not ballet but The Real Thing: Dress rehearsals took place last night for the Coronation procession…golden carriage goes by at about the 9-minute mark! Exciting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQcUoeNa734&pp=ygUUQ29yb25hdGlvbiByZWhlYXJzYWw%3D Its getting closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 I think I prefer Cinderella's pumpkin coach. More tasteful. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 5 minutes ago, Ondine said: I think I prefer Cinderella's pumpkin coach. More tasteful. Undoubtedly more comfortable too, but I think we can make allowances for a carriage that's over 250 years old. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 It's really quite ridiculous though isn't it? William Chambers, never a minimalist. 😏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 1 minute ago, Ondine said: It's really quite ridiculous though isn't it? William Chambers, never a minimalist. 😏 It does exactly what it was meant to do - make a big impression. I don't think it's "ridiculous" within the context of monarchy and a coronation. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, Ondine said: It's really quite ridiculous though isn't it? William Chambers, never a minimalist. 😏 ROTFL…. 🤣 I hope that the BBC installs an in-carriage camera…bump - bump - bump! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 And it features Roman gods and goddesses being allegorical about us being all triumphant at war. Queen Victoria didn't care for it, I suspect the bump-bump had something to do with it! Or perhaps she wasn't a fan of the Romans. I'm resisting digressing into coach loo facilities, as we did with the ROH and the Royal Box. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 22 minutes ago, Ondine said: Queen Victoria didn't care for it, I suspect the bump-bump had something to do with it! Queen Elizabeth II said the same thing. That’s why I’m amazed that they’re using it this time (for one way only, after the coronation, I read). Wheels, please stay on! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, Jeannette said: Wheels, please stay on! I'm sure the Royal Mews has made sure of that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) I believe it was so chilly on the day of the last coronation a hot water bottle was put under the seat. I remember the last coronation (we had a telly, all the neighbours came to watch). Black & white of course. A little delving in the archives, the Coronation Ballet (Frederick Ashton) 1953 Homage to the Queen programme, the Coronation Ballet, June 1953 https://www.roh.org.uk/photos/7302439844 Further info here. Fascinating. Look at the cast! https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/12264/Homage-to-the-Queen--Malcolm-Arnold/ Edited May 3, 2023 by Ondine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) I think it's really fun that after the stately tableau at the end of Homage to the Queen, the Coronation Day gala ended with Facade! Edited May 3, 2023 by Jane S 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 34 minutes ago, Jane S said: I think it's really fun that after the stately tableau at the end of Homage to the Queen, the Coronation Day gala ended with Facade! Was Edris Stannus from County Wicklow a Republican? 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolkgal Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Dame Ninette? Doubt it .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 She was of course a friend and associate of Yeats! She founded the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Ondine said: A little delving in the archives, the Coronation Ballet (Frederick Ashton) 1953 Homage to the Queen programme, the Coronation Ballet, June 1953 https://www.roh.org.uk/photos/7302439844 Further info here. Fascinating. Look at the cast! https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/work/12264/Homage-to-the-Queen--Malcolm-Arnold/ I know! I went to the reconstruction ca 2006, with segments by different choreographers + Ashton’s Queen of the Air section. I especially recall Steven McRae as the Spirit of Fire in Wheeldon’s Queen of Fire segment! Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeannette 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJW Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Slightly off topic but apparently the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh are coming to our local Coronation Big Lunch on Sunday...they don't live that far away so not far for them to come and the Duchess has been before (as Countess of Wessex). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Oh yes, the piece which was rejigged at the last minute due to Ed Watson sustaining an injury, IIRC - I think Steven was pretty much winging it, from what I remember! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 The original Homage to the Queen had at least 19 performances, so the ROH archive tells us. Very sad that the original choreography wasn’t preserved (and danced more often)! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 02/05/2023 at 16:19, Jeannette said: So a West Side Story “redo”? Nothing classical…grrrr…. I was thinking the main pdd from Ashton’s Homage to the King, redone. Silly me! Gotta say.... not sure how West Side Story is relevant to a Coronation or even Britain, especially with every word of Shakespeare’s not actually in the script any more, lovely as WSS itself might be. And of course, inevitable comparisons to Robbins and Bernstein (impossibly big shoes to fill). Oh well, at this point, I hear cynics chiming in, “you’re lucky ballet is even involved!” so I’ll say no more. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 03/05/2023 at 15:03, alison said: Oh yes, the piece which was rejigged at the last minute due to Ed Watson sustaining an injury, IIRC - I think Steven was pretty much winging it, from what I remember! I checked my notes of the performance and, whatever the situation with Watson, McRae was out-of-this-world magnificent as Spirit of Fire! It didn’t seem like floundering. His career really took off after that. I’m sorry that Homage was not revived. Even the corny ending (with all dancers turning their backs to the audience, to bow to the crest,) made its mark. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Jeannette said: I checked my notes of the performance and, whatever the situation with Watson, McRae was out-of-this-world magnificent as Spirit of Fire! It didn’t seem like floundering. His career really took off after that. I’m sorry that Homage was not revived. Even the corny ending (with all dancers turning their backs to the audience, to bow to the crest,) made its mark. There's a photo of that, and more about the 2006 'Homage to the Queen' here: http://danceviewtimes.com/2006/Spring/11/rb75gala.html Oh dear. And Darcey Bussell was, frankly, too much of a lump for the Fonteyn role in Air, with David Makhateli struggling to support her. Edited May 4, 2023 by Ondine 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 4 minutes ago, Ondine said: There's a photo of that, and more about the 2006 'Homage to the Queen' here: http://danceviewtimes.com/2006/Spring/11/rb75gala.html Thanks! Beside McRae, my biggest remembrance is of the clear technique of Laura Morera in the Pas de Trois of Corder’s Water section. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 That Royal Box again The management sat their royal visitors in the so-called royal box, which gives a lousy view right round the side; did having the whole company sing “Happy birthday” at the end make up for this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 28 minutes ago, Ondine said: And Darcey Bussell was, frankly, too much of a lump for the Fonteyn role in Air, with David Makhateli struggling to support her. Extremely rude. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnePigeon Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 Indeed! Of all the words that spring to mind when I think of Darcey Bussell, ‘lump’ is certainly not one of them. I suspect she was too tall for her partner. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 Do we know if this concert is to be relayed on television? If so when and where? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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