PRESS"Performed by the City of London Sinfonia at London's Barbican, "Radio Rhapsody" by Didi Balle is one of the most entertaining evenings I've ever spend in a concert hall." _ The Guardian/The Observer (London)
The highlight was Didi Balle's "Lulu Pinkerton, Dime Detective" a clever spin on the sort of radio serial that was the rage as the time. It was a nail-biting tale of tap-dancing, Morse code and bootleggers." _ The Daily Telegraph (London) "Radio Rhapsody" -- compiled and written by director Denise Lanctot Balle -- has done the rounds of America's orchestras. For this hilarious entertainment's first UK showing, under the baton of the conductor who commissioned it, Marin Alsop, some of London theatre land's top performers including Henry Goodman recreated the feel of a live radio broadcast in the mid-thirties." _ The Daily Telegraph (London) "If you came across a woman got up in a gumshoe's mac and tribly and a bloke in high heels, you'd probably assume they'd strayed from a cross-dressing party. Not on this occasion, however. The woman is Lulu Pinkerton ("tap-dancer by day, gumshoe by night"), a female detective, in a fictional 1930s American radio series. The chap is a sound-effects guy, clattering his feet on planks as our intrepid heroine totters through San Francisco. They both feature in a delightfully quirky show called "Radio Rhapsody" the brainchild of writer/director Didi Balle and conductor (and Bernstein pupil) Marin Alsop." _ The Guardian (London) |