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If There Is Much In The Window There Should Be More In The Room
Dedicated to the Great Buddha TODAIJI Temple in Nara, Japan In music, the sarabande is a dance in triple metre. The second and third beats of each measure are often tied, giving the dance a distinctive rhythm of crotchets and minims in alternation. The crotchets are said to have corresponded with dragging steps in the dance. This suite (Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011) is most famous for its intimate Sarabande, which Yo-Yo Ma played on September 11, 2002 at the site of the World Trade Center, while the first of the names of the dead were read in remembrance on the first anniversary of the attack on the WTC and is the second of only four movements in all six suites that doesn't contain any chords.
Rostropovich describes it as the essence of Bach's genius; Tortelier, as an extension of silence. The fifth suite is also exceptional as its Courante and Gigue are in the French style, rather than the Italian form of the other five suites.
When one envisions a ballerina, a lovely, ethereal creature comes to mind; one who skims across the floor with delicacy and grace......whose every movement is soft, feminine and fluid. This image could almost seem like a fantasy, impossible to exist in the real world. As a matter of fact, it rarely does. While good ballet dancers are not numerous, great ones come our way so infrequently that they usually become legends. This is certainly Alessandra Ferri's destiny. For people not familiar with her dancing, they might wonder what distinguishes one principal dancer from another. Why is she so special? The answer is rather difficult to put into words since her magnificent qualities defy description. Just to see her move, to extend her incredibly arched foot, to observe the musicality that ripples through her entire body as she makes an otherwise academic step look like poetry-------all of this lyricism, exquisite line and passionate expression is so evident that the observer cannot help but be taken in by the beauty of it all. She surely exemplifies what ballet is supposed to be. Alessandra Ferri is a highly accomplished Italian ballerina and performs a beautiful ballet routine as Sting plays Bach’s Perlude on his guitar. The warm up scenes are very intimate too as he does yoga stretches and she gets her shoes ready—it’s soothing and has a nice ending as well.
Music video with Alessandra Ferri (principal dancer with American Ballet Theater) and Sting. Work: Bach: Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
