Ives, Songs
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Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
balletmaster Jerome Robbins
to songs of Charles Ives
:
The premiere took place on February 4, 1988, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
with scenery by David Mitchell, costumes by Florence Klotz
and lighting by Jennifer Tipton
. The singer was Timothy Nolen
and the pianist Gordon Boelzner. Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include Peter Martins
' Calcium Light Night, George Balanchine
's Ivesiana
and Eliot Feld
's The Unanswered Question
.
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 songs of Charles Ives
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...
:
- The Children's Hour
- Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant
- Waltz
- The Cage
- The See'r
- Two Little Flowers
- At the River and Serenity
- He is There
- Tom Sails Away
- White Gulls
- Songs My Mother Taught MeSongs My Mother Taught Me (Charles Ives song)"Songs My Mother Taught Me" is the title of a song for voice and piano, written by Charles Ives in 1895 and set to a poem by Adolf Heyduk....
- There is a Lane
- In Summer Fields
- from the "Incantation"
- Autumn
- Like a Sick Eagle
- Elegie
The premiere took place on February 4, 1988, 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:...
with scenery by David Mitchell, costumes by Florence Klotz
Florence Klotz
Florence Klotz was an American costume designer on Broadway and film.-Biography:Originally named as Kathrina Klotz, she later changed her name to "Florence" and was often nicknamed "Flossie"....
and lighting by Jennifer Tipton
Jennifer Tipton
Jennifer Tipton is a lighting designer. She has designed for dance, theater and opera.In 1958, she graduated from Cornell University...
. The singer was Timothy Nolen
Timothy Nolen
Timothy Nolen is an American actor and baritone who has had an active career in operas, musicals, concerts, plays, and on television for over four decades. He notably portrayed the title role in the first operatic presentation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Houston Grand Opera in 1984...
and the pianist Gordon Boelzner. Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include 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...
' Calcium Light Night, George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
's Ivesiana
Ivesiana
Ivesiana is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Charles Ives' Central Park in the Dark , The Unanswered Question , In the Inn , and In the Night shortly after the composer's death. The premiere took place September 14, 1954, at the City Center of...
and Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld
Eliot Feld is an American modern ballet choreographer, performer and director.-Life and career:Feld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Alice , a travel agent, and Benjamin Noah Feld, an attorney...
's The Unanswered Question
The Unanswered Question (ballet)
The Unanswered Question: Some Intimations of the American Composer Charles Ives is a ballet made by Eliot Feld to Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question, Calcium Light Night, Fugue in Four Keys, Mists, From the Housatonic at Stockbridge, Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin , Remembrance and An Old...
.
original
- Maria Calegari
- Stacy Caddell
- Katrina Killian
- Margaret Tracey
- Lauren Hauser
- Melinda Roy
- Lisa Jackson
- Florence Fitzgerald
- Stephanie Saland
- Alexandre Proia
- Jeppe Mydtskov
- Laurence Matthews
- Michael Byars
- Tom Gold
- Robert Lyon
- Damian WoetzelDamian WoetzelDamian Woetzel, former ballet star, is a producer and director of dance and music performances. Among his recent projects was directing the first performance of the White House Dance Series in September 2010, which took place in the East Room of the White House and was hosted by First Lady Michelle...
- Philip NealPhilip NealPhilip Neal was a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. He studied from age 11 at the Richmond Ballet School. After six years of study there, Edward Villella arranged a summer scholarship for him at NCYB's School of American Ballet...
- Jeffrey Edwards
- Otto Neubert
See also
- NYCB 2008 Spring repertory
- NYCB 2009 Winter gala
Articles
Reviews
- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/arts/dance/11ball.htmlNY Times, 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 11, 2008] - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/arts/dance/29ball.htmlNY Times review by Roslyn SulcasRoslyn SulcasRoslyn Sulcas is a dance critic for the New York Times. She grew up in Cape Town, South Africa, and studied English literature in college, receiving a post-graduate degree from York University in England. While finishing her thesis she lived in Paris, where she began writing for the British Dance...
, May 29, 2008]