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Re: Ornette Coleman and ballet
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holloman...@gmail.com
Nov 12, 2016, 11:48:17 PM11/12/16
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On Tuesday, March 9, 1999 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, plai...@mindspring.com wrote:
> I'm enjoying an Ornette Coleman birthday broadcast on WKCR as I surf and
> wondered if anyone knows of a ballet set to Coleman or other jazz considered
> avant garde? Just now I can't even think of modern dance set to Coleman,
> though I'm sure someone's done something. The music I'm hearing (not in his
> extremely dense harmolodic mode) is wonderfully danceable. I can't say I see
> ballet as I listen, but rather something wonderfully twisty and stomping. Any
> other Ornette fans on aab? --Lobelia
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was written as a ballet - haven't seen it though.
> I'm enjoying an Ornette Coleman birthday broadcast on WKCR as I surf and
> wondered if anyone knows of a ballet set to Coleman or other jazz considered
> avant garde? Just now I can't even think of modern dance set to Coleman,
> though I'm sure someone's done something. The music I'm hearing (not in his
> extremely dense harmolodic mode) is wonderfully danceable. I can't say I see
> ballet as I listen, but rather something wonderfully twisty and stomping. Any
> other Ornette fans on aab? --Lobelia
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was written as a ballet - haven't seen it though.
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