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Meet the Filmmaker: \;Clemente D'Alessio
220\;Mowgli”\; \;
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Lo
cation: NY NATAS, 1375 Broadway, Suite 2103<
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Reception: 6:00-6:30 PM ~ Program: 6:30-8:00 PM
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*Free to NY NATAS Members!
$15 for those without current membership
Mowgli, an incredible and visually stunning classical ballet, wa
s \;written by the 13-year-old prodigy Alex Prior who at the ripe old
age of 15 was also the conductor for this performance. Born to a Russian m
other and a British father, Alex was raised in England. He is currently en
rolled in graduate studies in composition at the Academy in St. Petersburg
, Russia. His great-grandfather was the famous Stanislavsky, his grandfath
er was an architect who designed and built one of the museums on Red Squar
e, and several of his relatives have performed as premier dancers with the
Bolshoi Ballet. Alex is wonderful, intelligent, fun-loving and a distingu
ished musician. Mowgli is based on Rudyard Kipling’\;s T
he Jungle Book. It is a full-length classical ballet, produced and pe
rformed by The Moscow Classical Ballet, complete with beautiful sets, cost
umes, and a symphonic orchestra. The score has some unusual instrumentatio
n, and \;it also includes a chorus. The choreographers are Natalia Kas
atkina and her husband Vladimir Vasilyov, both premier dancers with the Bo
lshoi Ballet. Mowgli is a wonderful children’\;s ballet, and
has every earmark of becoming a classic. The audience, filled with childr
en, certainly loved it.
The
host of this documentary \;is the incomparable Angela Lansbury who, as
a prominent citizen of stage and screen, has recently had a triumph in he
r Broadway performances of Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward. She will
be returning to Broadway in the Sondheim classic A Little Night Music
with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Cl
emente D’\;Alessio, a five-time Emmy®\; Award winner, is the Foun
der and President of D’\;Alessio Media, Inc., a company committed to
the international broadcast of the performing arts. D’\;Alessio began
his career at the Metropolitan Opera where he was television producer for
the premier PBS series Live from the Met. Other high-profile pro
jects include: A Memorial for Audrey Hepburn at UNICEF, Placi
do Domingo Sings Zarzuela, The Hundredth Anniversary of the Phila
delphia Orchestra, The Concert for Peace from Oslo with the Elie
Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, Georg Solti at 75, telecasts
with Luciano Pavarotti and the Opera Company of Philadelphia, annual Rich
ard Tucker Opera Galas, The Classical Hour at Steinway Hall, and
a chamber music series for NHK-TV in \;Japan. His television work has
taken him to Norway, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Austria, and a Ja
zz Festival in Monaco. Programs have included such luminaries as Leonard B
ernstein, Dave Brubeck, Placido Domingo, Lionel Hampton, President Vaclav
Havel, Marilyn Horne, Audrey Hepburn, Elton John, James Earl Jones, Herbie
Mann, Luciano Pavarotti, Gregory Peck, Skitch Henderson, Sting, André
\; Watts and Elie Wiesel. He has received five Emmy®\; Awards, two Pea
body Awards, two Radio Festival Awards, a Golden Cine Eagle Award, a Gover
nor’\;s Award, and an Excellence in Journalism prize for a wide spect
rum of music programs for broadcast. Clemente is currently on the Board of
the Oratorio Society of New York, and for nine years served on the Board
of Governors of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED DUE TO
BUILDING SECURITY. ALL NAMES MUST BE ON GUEST LIST.
PLEASE RSVP VIA EMA
IL info@nyemmys.org or call 212-459
-3630 ext. 200 \;
Produce
d &\; Moderated by Sumner Jules Glimcher