Mother Goose (ballet)
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Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet
's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins
to Ravel's
music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite
from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
, with costumes by Stanley Simmons and lighting by Jennifer Tipton
. At its premiere it bore the French title, which was retained when it was first revived in January 1978 but Anglicized by May of that year. Ma Mère l'Oye was written as a suite of five pieces for four-hand piano and later orchestrated and adapted into a ballet with the addition of a prelude, an opening scene and four interludes connecting the five original pieces.
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 by 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 Ravel's
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
music and scenario, the Ma Mère l'Oye Suite
Ma Mère l'Oye
Ma mère l'oye is a musical work by French composer Maurice Ravel.-Piano versions:Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children...
from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, 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 costumes by Stanley Simmons 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...
. At its premiere it bore the French title, which was retained when it was first revived in January 1978 but Anglicized by May of that year. Ma Mère l'Oye was written as a suite of five pieces for four-hand piano and later orchestrated and adapted into a ballet with the addition of a prelude, an opening scene and four interludes connecting the five original pieces.
original
- Muriel Aasen
- Delia Peters
- Tracy Bennett
- Deborah Koolish
- Colleen Neary
- Richard Hoskinson
- Matthew Giordano
- Jay Jolley
- Daniel Duell
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E0DE1538F93AA15757C0A965948260NY Times review, 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...
, April 29, 1983] - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E0DB1238F935A35752C0A965948260NY Times review, 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...
, January 6, 1983] - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4D8113AF932A25755C0A966958260NY Times review, 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...
, June 11, 1990]
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7D8173DF934A15755C0A967958260NY Times review, 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...
, June 27, 1991] - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE0DF1730F936A25751C0A964958260NY Times review, 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, 1992] - NY Times review, Gia Kourlas, May 17, 2008