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found its footing, becoming the company-in-residence at City Center. Before then, the future of Lincoln Kirstein’s vision for a troupe centered on the works of George Balanchine had looked iffy. Seventy-five years later, the company is still kicking.
The fall season, with nineteen ballets, is dedicated to Balanchine; it starts with the three-act “Jewels” , set to music by Fauré, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky. Other performances include “Serenade” , and the program that opened N.Y.C.B.’s first season at City Center, a showcase of Mr. B.’s range: the rigor of “Concerto Barocco,” the emotional depth of “Orpheus,” and the luminosity of “Symphony in C.”—accented by mock-majestic thunderclaps, has a frisson of the Super Friends at the Hall of Justice: five big late-night TV hosts—Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver—unite to do good, by raising money for their shows’ staffers during the ongoing W.G.A. strike, and enjoy the glory that comes with it. It’s an amiable, loosely structured gab, in which their interpersonal dynamic—mutually respectful, with liberal chops busting—provides some intrigue as they riff about strike-era news stories that they’re sad to have missed , swap show-biz anecdotes, and, occasionally, discuss the importance of the strike.—Franz Schubert wrote hundreds of lieder before his death, at the age of thirty-one. The last ones, collected and published posthumously as the “Schwanengesang” , build on archetypes of Romantic passion: red roses, treetops rustling in the moonlight, Atlas bowed beneath a world of sorrows. The German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who performs those works with his adept accompanist, Helmut Deutsch, is renowned for his gorgeous voice. Is the music enough?a new, staged version—directed by Claus Guth and billed as “part performance and part installation art”—adds a narrative to the eponymous finale, and plumps Schubert’s songs with video projections, and a soundscape composed by Mathis Nitschke. Romance isn’t dead yet.—In the past few years, African pop has been infiltrated by the sounds of amapiano, a subgenre of house music born in South Africa which features an elastic, percussive digital bass known as the log drum. One of amapiano’s defining practitioners, and perhaps its greatest ambassador, is the Swazi-born d.j. and producer Lungelihle Zwane, who performs assince 2021, she has spread its gospel internationally, earning signal boosts from Drake and Beyoncé in the process. The two EPs she released this year—“Asylum,” from March, and “Solace,” from August—display her range as a mood-setter, with tracks spanning shuffling dance-floor movers and softer, more R. & B.-adjacent wind-downs. In either state, her grooves are so infectious that even she can’t resist dancing.—
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