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Take Five Blues

“Lively mash-up”

ReviewsNov 25, 2020Online

The first of five ballet films commissioned by English National Ballet is a lively ensemble piece propelled by Nigel Kennedy’s mash-up of Bach’s Vivace and Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck’s Take Five

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