BALLET AND APE MUSIC
The Australian Ballet, which recently completed a tour of the United States, plans to add an unusual ballet to its repertoire.
It is an interpretation of “Othello,” set to music from the film, “Planet of the Apes.” The company’s coartistic director, Dame Peggy Van Praagh, said the ballet had been devised by the company’s principal dancer, Garth Welsh, for a graduation performance at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. “Some unusual instruments were used for the sound track of the film, and so we didn’t think we would be able to do it on stage,” she said. “Then while we were in Hollywood I met Jerry Goldsmith who wrote the music for the film, and he agreed to rescore parts for the ballet." Twentieth Century Fox studios promised to give the company the unusual percussion instruments needed to perform the music.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 21
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