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Piano-Rag-Music (Martins), to music by Igor Stravinsky, 1982; Pictures at an Exhibition, to music by Modest Mussorgsky, 2014; Pillar of Fire, to music by Arnold Schoenberg, 1942; Pineapple Poll, to music by Arthur Sullivan, 1951; Pirates of Penzance – The Ballet!, to music by Arthur Sullivan, 1991; Plainspoken, David Lang, 2010
Les Sylphides (French: [le silfid]) is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.. The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie", [1] [2] is frequently cited as the first ballet to be simply about mood and dance. [1]
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios , Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [ 3 ]
Blake Works I is a ballet choreographed by William Forsythe to seven songs from James Blake's album The Colour in Anything.The ballet was made for the Paris Opera Ballet, Forsythe's first work for the company since 1999, and premiered on 4 July 2016, at Palais Garnier.
Thus, the 19th century Classical period in ballet coincided with the 19th century Romantic era in music. Ballet music composers from the 17th–20th centuries, including the likes of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev, were predominantly in France and Russia. Yet with the increased international ...
Dream with Music (1944), a musical fantasy starring Vera Zorina; Song of Norway (1944), an operetta based on the life and music of Edvard Grieg; Balanchine's most successful Broadway show; Mr. Strauss Goes to Boston (1945), another flop; The Chocolate Soldier (1947), an operetta with music by Oscar Straus
Adolphe Adam was a popular writer of ballet and opera music in early 19th-century France. [31] He wrote with great speed and completed Giselle in about two months. [32] The music was written in the smooth, song-like style of the day called cantilena. This style is well known to music lovers from Bellini's opera Norma and Donizetti's Lucia di ...
Ballets to the music of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1 P) Ballets by Walter Piston (1 P) Ballets by Francis Poulenc (6 P) Ballets to the music of Prince (musician) (1 P)