Fanfare (ballet)
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Fanfare is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
to Britten's
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
, op.34 (1945) in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and Drama
, New York. The Young Person's Guide begins with variations and end with a fugue on a theme by Henry Purcell
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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...
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
to Britten's
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a musical composition by Benjamin Britten in 1946 with a subtitle "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell"...
, op.34 (1945) in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; the premiere took place on Coronation Night, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1953, at City Center of Music and Drama
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
, New York. The Young Person's Guide begins with variations and end with a fugue on a theme by Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
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original
- Carolyn George
- Jillana
- Irene Larsson
- Jacques d'Amboise
- Edward Bigelow
- Todd BolenderTodd BolenderTodd Bolender was a renowned ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director. He was an instrumental figure in the creation and dissemination of classical dance and ballet as an American art form...
- Robert FletcherRobert FletcherRobert Fletcher is a costume and set designer.Fletcher's first ambition was to become an archeologist. Before he graduated from Harvard University, however, he had become an aspiring actor...
- Frank Hobi
- Michael Maule
2008 Spring – Jerome Robbins celebration
- students of the School of American BalletSchool of American BalletThe School of American Ballet is one of the most famous classical ballet schools in the world and is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a leading international ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. The school trains students from the...
Reviews
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F17FC3C5A117A93C1A9178DD85F478585F9NY Times, John MartinJohn Martin (dance critic)John Martin became America’s first major dance critic in 1927. Focusing his efforts on propelling the modern dance movement, he greatly influenced the careers of dancers such as Martha Graham...
, June 3, 1953] - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1091FFE3E581A718DDDA90A94D9415B878BF1D3Sunday NY Times, Clive BarnesClive Barnes (critic)Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...
, November 20, 1977]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/arts/dance/04scho.htmlNY Times, Alastair MacaulayAlastair MacaulayAlastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
, June 4, 2008] - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/arts/dance/12next.htmlNY Times, Alastair MacaulayAlastair MacaulayAlastair Macaulay is a dance critic for the New York Times. He was previously chief dance critic at The Times Literary Supplement and chief theater critic of the Financial Times, both of London...
, June 12, 2008]