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Ballet

Notes by Janet E. Bedell, Copyright ©2015

of

maryland

PREMIER
PROFESSIONAL
BALLET
COMPANY

The Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric and Ballet Theatre of Maryland
are proud to present a new ballet collaboration.

CINDERELLA
MARCH 28, 2015
7:00PM

PHOTO © NICK ECKERT

notes, seemingly born from the primordial
ooze, emerges the mightiest descending
theme. After moods of struggle, reverie,
and provisional triumph, Beethoven
appends a huge coda — one quarter of
the movement — that even touches on a
ghostly funeral march before the orchestra
shouts the principal theme one last time in
a powerful unison.
The Scherzo second movement —
Beethoven’s greatest example of the fierce
dance form he refashioned from the
3/4-time minuet — is built out of another
descending motive, consisting of just two
pitches and a dotted rhythm. From that
dotted rhythm and the potential it offers
to the timpani to become a major player
instead of an accompanist, Beethoven
creates a witty, infectious movemen ق