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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
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. Words without Music: A Surrealist Ballet, a production number for the singing and dancing ensemble Night Flight, a solo for Harriet Hoctor 5 A.M., a number for Josephine Baker and male dancers
Ballet to music by Emmanuel Chabrier: Bar aux Folies-Bergère; Arthur Rimbaud, French poet Ballet to music by Benjamin Britten: Illuminations; Diego Rivera, Mexican painter Peter Salem: Broken Wings; Anastasia Romanovna, Tsaritsa consort, first wife of Ivan the Terrible Ballet to music by Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible
From the earliest ballets up to the time of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687), ballet music was indistinguishable from ballroom dance music. Lully created a style that was separate, wherein the music told a story. The first ballet d'action was staged in 1717. The Loves of Mars and Venus was a story told without words.
The music was composed by the Alhambra Theatre's chef d'orchestre Georges Jacoby. The second scene of Swan Lake was then presented on 21 February in Prague by the Ballet of the National Theatre in a version mounted by the Balletmaster August Berger. The ballet was given during two concerts which were conducted by Tchaikovsky.
Vienna Waltzes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, made as a tribute to Austria. It premiered on June 23, 1977 at the New York State Theater , performed by the New York City Ballet , and was an immediate success among the public.
Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Petipa and Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker is a broadly popular version of the ballet often performed in the United States. Conceived for the New York City Ballet , its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center , New York, with costumes by Karinska , sets by Horace Armistead ...
I was ashamed. If I had known this music earlier, then of course I would not have written Swan Lake. [36] Carl Van Vechten shared Tchaikovsky's view that Delibes revolutionised ballet composition: "Before he began to compose his ballets, music for dancing, for the most part, consisted of tinkle-tinkle melodies with marked rhythm." In Van ...