Liebeslieder Walzer
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Liebeslieder Walzer is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine
to Johannes Brahms
' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe
. The premiere took place on Tuesday, 22 November, 1960, New York, at the City Center of Music and Drama
, New York, with mise en scène by David Hays
and costumes by Karinska
. The duo pianists were Louise Sherman and Robert Irving
and the singers Angeline Rasmussen, Mitzi Wilson, Frank Poretta and Herbert Beattie.
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 balletmaster 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 Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
' Liebeslieder, op. 52, 1869, and Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
. The premiere took place on Tuesday, 22 November, 1960, New York, at the 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, with mise en scène by David Hays
David Hays
David Leslie Hays was an English-born Scottish cricketer.David Hays was educated at Highgate and the University of Cambridge. He represented Cambridge University and Scotland in 25 first-class matches as a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper between 1965 and 1980...
and costumes by Karinska
Barbara Karinska
Varvara Jmoudsky, better known as Barbara Karinska or simply Karinska , was costumer of the New York City Ballet, and the first costume designer ever to win the Capezio Dance Award, for costumes "of visual beauty for the spectator and complete delight for the dancer".However, she designed the...
. The duo pianists were Louise Sherman and Robert Irving
Robert Irving (conductor)
Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.Born in Winchester, England, the son of mountaineer and author R. L. G. Irving, he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in music...
and the singers Angeline Rasmussen, Mitzi Wilson, Frank Poretta and Herbert Beattie.
Scenario
The musicians and dancers appear on stage together in period costumes. The dancers wear formal evening dress and the women dancing slippers during the first set of eighteen waltzes in a cozy ballroom; after a brief lowering of the curtain they dance the next fourteen waltzes under a starry sky, the women in calf-length tulle skirts and pointe shoes. They leave the stage two by two and return in pairs in original costume to listen to the last waltz.original
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Videography and DVD
- 2004 Kultur Balanchine part I excerpts from 2005 Films du Prieuré Violette et Mr. B
Television
- 1961 CBCCanadian Broadcasting CorporationThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
Montreal, L'Heure du Concert - 1973 RM Productions
- 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt
- 2004 PBSPublic Broadcasting ServiceThe Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
Live from Lincoln Center: Balanchine 100 excerpt - 2004 French television Violette et Mr. B excerpt
See also
Articles
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1091EFC345C0C738EDDAC0894DC484D81Sunday NY Times by Anna KisselgoffAnna KisselgoffAnna Kisselgoff is a dance critic and cultural news reporter for the New York Times. She began at the Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005...
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Reviews
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30C12FB3F551A7A93C1AB178AD95F448685F9NY Times by 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...
, 23 November 1960] - http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C15FB3955157B8EDDAE0894D8415B858AF1D3NY Times by 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...
, 7 October 1965] - NY Times by Paul Hofmann, 31 May 1977
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEED71339F93BA25755C0A963948260NY Times by Jack AndersonJack Anderson (dance critic)Jack Anderson is an American dance critic and author. Since 1978, he has been a contributor of dance reviews and other articles in The New York Times...
, 18 June 1985] - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD8123BF932A25755C0A961948260NY Times 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...
, 11 June 1987] - http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/dance/19bala.htmlNY Times 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...
, 19 May 2006]