Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The next step for “Ballade,” coached by its original ballerina, Merrill Ashley, is to keep it in the repertory. Especially with Mira Nadon in the lead.

Ballade With Sounds, or Why Indeed? If you neglect the sounds it is no ballade; if you neglect the sense — why write it at all? No one is compelled to use these complex forms, but if chosen, their ...

This all began with Gary. We were a group of strangers, who had come to the Lot valley in central France to play the piano for a week; keen amateurs all. Gary seemed the outsider – a little awkward, ...