Watching the movie White Nights.

[elleng]

This is one of my FAVORITEs:

about the White Nights, in St. Petersburg:



http://www.saint-petersburg.com/virtual-tour/whitenights/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. Watching Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines together is really great.

I've seen another ballet movie, the one with Anne Bancroft and Shirley MacLaine having bitch fights, and I absolutely HATED it. I am a classical musician. I love the symphony. I love chamber music. I love jazz. I love opera. I love old rock and roll. I do not understand ballet at all. It seems so unnatural and painful.

The athletic sequence of Baryshnikov in the opening credits of White Nights is pretty cool.

I went to see Alexander Godunov when he went on tour by himself across the United States. He and Baryshnikov were classmates.

The woman who played Gregory Hines' wife was Isabella Rossellini. She is Ingrid Bergman's daughter and has been in several movies. She was in Blue Velvet and Immortal Beloved, which was about Beethoven.

[elleng]

2. Yes, watching the whole movie now.

I grew up attending NYCity Ballet, and developed love for 'classical' music.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. I've played a lot of ballet music in college/amateur orchestras.

Let's see:
Les Sylphides-Chopin,
The Firebird, The Rite of Spring, Chant du rossignol-Stravinsky,
Romeo and Juliet-Tchaikovsky,
Romeo & Juliet-Prokofief, Cinderella-Prokofief,
The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake--Tchaikovsky
The Miraculous Mandarin-Bartok,
Giselle-Adam,
Coppelia-Delibes,
Rodeo-Copland,
The Red Poppy-Gliere. (Russian Sailors' Dance)

Love playing the music, just don't get the dancing.

[elleng]

4. I used to turn Coppelia and Sylphides on

in living room when waiting for my ride to high school, so I'd 'dance' around the house!!!

This part really got me going!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Cool! That's the most famous part!

That's the part I hear in my head when I think of Coppelia.

[elleng]

8. Right, and there are reasons for it!

[annabanana]

5. From that movie; Our Song

my dear departed Mr Banana

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. My condolences on your loss of Mr. Banana.

Great Lionel Richie song. Great dancing by Baryshnikov.

Don't know if you keep up with the Grammys, but they were on last Monday night. They did a Lionel Richie tribute and he came out of the audience and got on stage and joined them on "All Night Long".

[OriginalGeek]

6. Another good song from that movie

Far Post by Robert Plant

Used to be you could only get it on the movie soundtrack album or as the B side on the Big Log single. it's also a bonus track on the re-release of Pictures at Eleven.

Pretty sure that's Phil Collins on drums too.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

10. I'd forgotten about that song. Cool!

Jazzier and more interesting than most Led Zep.

[OriginalGeek]

11. His early solo career was so 80s

but I loved it anyway.

Now he hangs with Allison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett among others and does roots versions of some Zep stuff and he takes his Sensational Space Shifters on tour and I got tickets for a show down here in about a month. Be the first time I've seen him perform since 1998.

The best thing about Plant is he doesn't seem to GAF. lol. He makes music that makes him happy and performs it (he's on tour all the time it seems) and if you wanna ride along that's cool and if you don't, he ain't mad.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. I love this movie. On top of the two male dancers, you have Helen Mirren too

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[elleng]

13. RIGHT!

I'd missed that bonus when I first watched it, but is a great part of a thoroughly enjoyable movie!