Delight of the Muses
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Delight of the Muses is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
's ballet master in chief Peter Martins
to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen
commissioned by City Ballet as part of its commemoration of the bicentennial of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the composer has taken fragments of Mozart piano sonatas K.231 and K. 283 and music from Don Giovanni
for this tribute to Mozart
. The premiere took place on January 29, 1992, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
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New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
's ballet master in chief Peter Martins
Peter Martins
Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was named man of the year by Danish American Society, 1980...
to eponymous music by Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen
Charles Peter Wuorinen is a prolific Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. His catalog of more than 250 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works...
commissioned by City Ballet as part of its commemoration of the bicentennial of the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the composer has taken fragments of Mozart piano sonatas K.231 and K. 283 and music from Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
for this tribute to Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
. The premiere took place on January 29, 1992, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
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- Darci KistlerDarci KistlerDarci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...
- Jock SotoJock SotoJock Soto is a former American ballet dancer and current ballet instructor.-Career:Soto danced featured roles in over 40 ballets, of which more than 35 were created for him....
- Nilas Martins
Reviews
- NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, January 31, 1992
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF123DF936A25751C0A965958260NY Times review by Jennifer DunningJennifer DunningJennifer Dunning is a writer and critic for the New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet. She is the author of the 1985 But First a School: The First Fifty Years of the School of American Ballet, the 1996 Alvin Ailey, a Life in Dance and the 1997 Great Performances: A...
, February 15, 1993]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE3DE1239F930A35752C0A960958260NY Times article by Allan KozinnAllan Kozinn-Biography:He received bachelor's degrees in music and journalism from Syracuse University in 1976. He began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for the New York Times in 1977, and joined the paper's staff in 1991...
, January 3, 1996]