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Ballet duo under the stars.(Entertainment)

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From: Cape Times (South Africa)
Date: 20070112
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RUDI van Dantzig's Four last Songs and Robert North's Entre dos Aguas will be performed at Maynardville's open air theatre every Sunday from January 21 to February 18.

Van Dantzig's Four last Songs was inspired by the poetry of Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha) and Joseph van Eichendorff, and is performed to Richard Strauss' swan song of the same name.

The song cycle portrays the acceptance of death as an inescapable but natural event that brings rest and peace. Four Last Songs is considered one of the most important Dutch classical ballets of the 1970s, ...

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