Le Tombeau de Couperin (ballet)
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Le tombeau de Couperin is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine
to Maurice Ravel
's 1919 music
of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920. The premiere took place as part of City Ballet
's Ravel Festival May 29, 1975, as the New York State Theater
, Lincoln Center
.
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...
co-founder and founding choreographer 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...
to Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
's 1919 music
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Le tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917, in six movements. Each movement is dedicated to the memory of friends of the composer who had died fighting in World War I...
of the same title and orchestrated by the composer 1920. The premiere took place as part of City Ballet
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 Ravel Festival May 29, 1975, as the New York State Theater
David H. Koch
David Hamilton Koch is an American businessman, philanthropist, political activist, and chemical engineer. He is a co-owner and an executive vice president of Koch Industries, a conglomerate that is the second-largest privately held company in the U.S...
, 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:...
.
Original Cast
- Judith Fugate
- Wilhelmina Frankfurt
- Muriel Aasen
- Susan Hendl
- Marjorie Spohn
- Delia Peters
- Susan Pilarre
- Carol Sumner
- Jean-Pierre Frohlich
- Victor Castelli
- Francis Sackett
- David Richardson
- Hermes Condé
- Richard Hoskinson
- Richard Dryden
- Laurence Matthews
Reviews
- http://www.villagevoice.com/dance/0807,jowitt,79079,14.htmlVillage Voice by Deborah JowittDeborah JowittDeborah Jowitt is an American dance critic, author, and choreographer. Her career in dance began as a performer and choreographer. Jowitt has received several awards for her work, including a Bessie for her work in dance criticism.Beginning in 1967, she wrote a weekly dance column for the Village...
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