Paul McCartney Raid Opens The Ballet In New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It was not rock 'n' roll, but the debut of Paul McCartney in the world of ballet with an orchestral soundtrack and romance in a royal court in the underwater for the first time during a gala Stars, fans of music and ballet in a warm reception was held Thursday.

McCartney, 69, asked for photos and the fans with his girlfriend Nancy Shevell, 51, along the fashion designer daughter Stella McCartney and actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Watts and Alec Baldwin in a packed house in New York City Ballet Gala held on Thursday in the realm of the ocean "."

But McCartney's work has created the ballet company of the Master Chief, Peter Martins, who choreographed the work, and granted interviews with the audience was there, McCartney, instead of an hour of ballet itself, was met with mixed reactions in an early review Posted on Friday.

The Telegraph said British music "was certainly not a shame A small chain was moving interlude in their delicacy." But considering McCartney had a hand in the story and choreography, the magazine adds: "When the lights went out and started dancing, it was clear that the performance was a ballet for beginners."

The former Beatle had a more important role in the ballet that most composers. He worked in the love story of a house called Honorata Ocean Princess and all the costumes for her daughter, and elements of choreography. The production had a budget of about $ 800,000.

Martins and McCartney met at the School of American Ballet Winter Gala in 2010 and began to discuss the possibility of working together with the production.

McCartney said on his website differed from the composition of the work to write songs because it was more of a pure abstract to express feelings, "... so you have a fear, love, anger, pain play, and I found that exciting and stimulating. "

He told The Huffington Post "I had no idea what the rules are made or had, so I went back and wrote the music with dance in mind that m 'excited and thought it might excite Peter."

(Reporting by Christine Kearney, editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

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