Monday, November 26, 1990
The Battalion
Page 5
HUY THANH NGUYEN/The Battalion
Members of the production crew survey the stage in preparation for
the Bolshoi Ballet-Grigorovich Company’s debut. The staff of more
than 60 is made up of both Americans and Soviets. Interpreters help
the two understand each other.
Technical crew puts pieces together
Designer's creations still set the stage
“I could not imagine one of my
ballets without designs by Virsa-
ladze.”
Yuri Grigorovich, artistic di
rector for the Bolshoi Ballet, said
these words about famed de
signer Simon Virsaladze, whose
set and costume creations will
support the Grigorovich Compa
ny’s performances at Texas
A&M.
The two men began their artis
tic collaboration in 1957 and
worked as a team on every Grigo
rovich production for the next 30
years. Their original productions
include the bafiets “The Stone
Flower,” “Spartacus,” “Ivan the
Terrible” and “The Golden Age.”
Born in 1909, Virsaladze first
studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Tbilisi. In 1927, he cre
ated his first theater design there
and was appointed chief opera
and ballet designer at the Aca
demy in 1932.
In 1937 Virsaladze began his
career as ; chief designer for the
Kirov Theater in Leningrad. He
designed for the Bolshoi begin
ning in 1964 and continued to do
so until his death in January.
One writer noted of his work,
“His masterpieces supplement
the choreography, stimulating
the atmosphere of fantasy.”
By JOHN MABRY
“Putting it together, bit by bit...
Every moment makes a contribu
tion; every little detail plays a part.”
Stephen Sondheim’s commentary
on the art of performance holds true
for the Bolshoi Ballet-Grigorovich
Company production crew. The
crew has been putting it together
backstage at Rudder Auditorium for
the dancers’ long-awaited debut.
The giant technicM drew of 55
Americans and sevfen' Soviets has
been preparing the ^ithge for the
company for the last two weeks.
Set, props, costumes, lighting —
every little detail plays a part — and
details for the Bolshoi are anything
but little. A series of 40 hand-
painted and inlaid backdrops, for in
stance, are used in the set for “The
Nutcracker.”
The backdrops, nineteenth-cen
tury style furniture and over 200 col
orful costumes are duplicates of the
traditional designs of designer Si
mon Virsaladze, who created the
Bolshoi look for over 20 years. The
stage pieces are brand new and come
straight from the workshops at the
Bolshoi in Moscow.
In charge of organizing it all is
production manager David Brad
ford, of the Entertainment Corpora
tion in New York, who has described
the set as priceless.
“I’ve seen this production at the
Bolshoi twice with the original scen
ery, and it’s a beautiful production,”
he said.
Several adaptations have been
made to fit the stage to Rudder Au
ditorium. The huge backdrops, for
instance, were too large and had to
be modified to scale to fit.
Also, the crew had to enlarge the
stage floor, adding a full eight feet to
the back and four feet to each side.
The wooden floor was then covered
with a padding substance known as
marley. After this was put down, the
crew set a giant grounddoth over
the marley.
Overseeing A&M’s assistance in
the modifications of the stage and
the setup has been Mark Chaloupa,
the senior stage manager at Rudder.
“Working with the Russians has
been wonderful,” he said. “They’re
very understanding and easy to
work with, never demanding.”
Sister cities foster cultural understanding
By CAROL GLENN
In a time of unrest in the Middle
East, organizations such as the Bry
an/College Station Sister City Orga
nization are bridging the gap be
tween the Soviet Union and the
United States for a more culturally
aware society tomorrow.
After three years of negotiations,
the mayors of College Station, Bryan
and Kazan have initiated a program
enabling students, musicians and cit
izens to become more culturally
aware and receptive to foreign peo-
BVSO conductor leaves
for Sovietperformance
By CAROL GLENN
With all the fury in the Brazos
Valley by the visit of the Bolshoi
Ballet-Grigorovich Company it is
interesting to note that Franz An
ton Krager's visit to the Soviet
Union and the Bolshoi’s visit to
College Station are purely coin
cidentally overlapping.
Krager, music director-con
ductor of the Brazos Valley Sym
phony Orchestra (BVSO), travels
to the Soviet Union Tuesday until
December 12th at the invitation
of the National Philharmonic of
the Tatar Soviet Republic.
The trip is part of the cultural
exchange Sister City Organiza
tion.
Bryan/College Station’s sister
city, Kazan, invited Krager to
conduct two performances of the
Philharmonic, the second-rated
orchestra in the Soviet Union, on
December 7th and 9th.
On December 7th Krager will
conduct a concert that will in
clude; “American in Paris” by
George Gershwin; “Symphonic
Espagnole” by Lalo which will in
clude a violin conchardo and a vi
olin soloist; “Beethoven Sym
phony #7” in A Major; and
encores by the late Leonard
Bernstein.
On December 9th Krager will
conduct a concert featuring
“Hydn Symphony #88” in G Ma
jor, “Mozart’s Symphonic Con-
certante” for the violin and viola
and concluding with “Copland
Appalachian Spring.”
“I feel very privileged to be in
vited to Kazan to direct the Phil
harmonics. It’s a wonderful twist
of fate,” Krager said.
Krager is responsible for over
seeing that the BVSO is prepared
for visiting Soviet conductor, Al
exander Lavrenyuk. Krager de
cides who will be playing in the
orchestra and where they will be
sitting during the Bolshoi perfor
mances.
Lavrenyuk will conduct the
BVSO in the concerts that will ac
company the Bolshoi Ballet in
their performances of the “Nut
cracker” and their mixed reper
toire ballets. Four performances
of the Bolshoi Ballet-Grigorovich
Company will be accompanied by
taped music recordings.
While Krager is in the Soviet
Union, the performance of
“Handel’s Messia” on December
5th will be conducted by Jess
Wade who is the assistant music
coordinator of the Choral De
partment at Texas A&M.
In keeping with the sister city
program Maestro Rashid Skura-
tov, the music director of the
Philharmonic, is expected to visit
A&M next fall to conduct a few
concerts with a Russian twist.
pie. It also increases people’s knowl
edge of other countries by allowing
them to participate in this exchange
program.
Especially instrumental in the cre
ation of this orgainzaion is Michal
Barszap, who is president of the Bry
an/College Station Sister City Orga
nization. Barszap, who is a specialist
in Soviet relations, has made twelve
trips to the Soviet Union over the
last three years to help organize the
program and negotiate contracts
with Kazan.
“Kazan is the ideal city for us
(Bryan/College Station),” said Bar
szap. “Until last year Kazan was
closed to foreigners. We were the
first foreigners to enter the city. So,
not only are we able to travel where
foreigners have never been able to
travel, but we also have the opportu
nity to exchange musicians and stu
dents with Kazan State University,
the third largest university in the So
viet Union.”
Barszap travels to Kazan with
Franz Anton Krager Tuesday until
December 12th to assist Krager with
language and culture barriers.
Krager is conducting concerts by the
National Philharmonic of the Tatar
Soviet Republic as part of the Sister
City cultural exchange program.
In addition to assisting Krager,
Barszap also will negotiate with Ka
zan sister city representatives. Issues
that will be discussed include:
• sending a Soviet conductor (not
associated with the Bolshoi Ballet) to
the B/CS area to conduct perfor
mances of the BVSO.
• exchanging 10 high school stu
dents from the B/CS area with 10
high students from Kazan.
• arranging a tour for the citizens
of B/CS to meet with citizens from
Kazan.
In conjunction with the Bryan-
/College Station Sister City Organi
zation, there is an exhibit of photo
graphs at the College of Medicine
and at the Walden Retirement Com
munity on Memorial Drive in Bryan.
This photographic exhibit titled
“Kazan: Life and Culture” includes
102 prints taken by Mikhail (Misha)
Medvedev, a photographer for the
Soviet news agency and a participant
in the sister city organization in Ka
zan.
These photographs depict life in
the Soviet Union and will be on dis
play through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
The Bryan/College Station Sister
City Organization will continue
working with Kazan as well as possi
bly expanding to other countries in
hopes of decreasing the number of
people who consider themselves for
eigners and making people more
understanding of other cultures.
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