Open this photo in gallery: Dancers Stephan Azulay, front left, and Tymin Keown, front right, rehearse for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s T’əl: The Wild Man of the Woods, which debuts April 25. Silhouetted against beams of fluorescent light shining from the ceiling of a vast studio, more than two dozen …
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About the event Modern coronations are carefully rehearsed, but not 1838′s. Only Victoria and one Westminster Abbey official came prepared for the five-hour event. Clergymen skipped pages in the complicated program, in one case dismissing Victoria from the abbey too early; an elderly lord tripped on the slippery steps in …
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The nightmare began two weeks before the unveiling. Jim Anagnoson’s standard anxiety dream, in which he was onstage at the piano and realized the conductor was beating his baton to a piece Anagnoson didn’t play – that dream he knew. Most concert pianists had their own version of it. Anagnoson …
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