Hero for a night.It was an unusually long intermission for New York City Ballet New York City Ballet, one of the foremost American dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded by Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine as the Ballet Society in 1946. . The audience was getting restless restless, adj in Chinese medicine, pertaining to either an abundance of heat energy, in conjunction with redness of face or to overstimulation in which case the face will be pale or greenish. and the musicians were waiting in the pit. Cameron Grant, who had been the primary rehearsal re·hears·al n. The process of repeating information, such as a name or a list of words, in order to remember it. re·hearse  v. pianist for
Wheeldon's Evenfall, which was slated to go on next, wondered what
was going to happen. Eventually Richard Moredock, NYCB's music
coordinator, and Perry Silvey, director of production, came into the pit
and announced that conductor conductorAny of various substances that allow the flow of electric current or thermal energy. A conductor is a poor insulator because it has a low resistance to such flow. Maurice Kaplow had been taken ill. Moredock and Silvey asked Grant if he could play the entire 57-piece Bartok score alone. Grant replied, "No I can't." They replied, "You'll be great!" And he was. That night Evenfall was beautiful and intimate, and the dancers were totally in sync with the music. At the curtain call, Miranda Weese and Seth Orza took Grant's hand and led him in front of the curtain--to loud bravos just for him. |
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