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Les Patineurs (The Skaters) is a ballet choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer and arranged by Constant Lambert.With scenery and costumes designed by William Chappell, it was first presented by the Vic-Wells Ballet at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 16 February 1937. [1]
The Prince was enthralled by Waldteufel's Manolo waltz, and was prepared to make Waldteufel's music known in Britain. [6] A long-term contract with the London-based publisher Hopwood & Crew followed. Part of the company belonged to Charles Coote , director of the Coote & Tinney's Band , the first dance orchestra in London .
A section from Johann Strauss' Waltz from Die Fledermaus. A waltz, [a] probably deriving from German Ländler, is dance music in triple meter, often written in 3 4 time.A waltz typically sounds one chord per measure, and the accompaniment style particularly associated with the waltz is (as seen in the example to the right) to play the root of the chord on the first beat, the upper notes on the ...
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The score was used as the foundation of the George Balanchine ballet Serenade in 1934.; The waltz in the second movement was arranged for soprano and full orchestra for the 1945 MGM film Anchors Aweigh under the name "From the Heart of a Lonely Poet" and performed by Kathryn Grayson with José Iturbi conducting the MGM studio orchestra.
[2] In the 1894 New Haven city directory, he is listed as being a violin teacher. [3] He wrote a number of works for orchestra, as well as some chamber music and songs; he also composed some pieces for choir. Haesche composed the piece "Marguerite Waltz" for viola and piano. [4] His works include: [2] 1896: Forest Idylle, tone poem for orchestra
The first version, under the title Brahms Waltz, used only Brahms' Op. 39, No. 15, and premiered on 22 June 1975, at the Hamburg State Opera. The expanded version, which featured more Brahms waltzes, premiered on 15 June 1976, during Ballet Rambert 's 50th anniversary gala, at the Sadler's Wells Theatre , London, and is dedicated to Marie Rambert .
[2] See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Carl Flesch. One of Flesch's few recordings is a highly distinguished interpretation of Bach's great D minor Double Violin Concerto (Columbia) in which he played second violin to the great Joseph Szigeti , with Walter Goehr conducting an anonymous London string orchestra in the late 1930s.