Woodland Sketches
Encyclopedia
Woodland Sketches is a ballet made by Robert La Fosse to Edward MacDowell
's eponymous music from 1896 for New York City Ballet
's American Music Festival. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 5th, 1988, at New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
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Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...
's eponymous music from 1896 for New York 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 American Music Festival. The premiere took place on Thursday, May 5th, 1988, at 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:...
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Original cast
- Valentina KozlovaValentina KozlovaValentina Kozlova is a Soviet-born Russian American ballerina and founder of Boston International Ballet Competition. In 1979, while on tour as a young Principal Dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, Kozlova defected to the United States, where she became a Principal Dancer with New York City Ballet and...
- Stephanie Saland
- Stacy Caddell
- Darci KistlerDarci KistlerDarci Kistler is a noted American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine.-Biography:...
- Leonid KozlovLeonid KozlovLeonid Kozlov is a former principal dancer of the Bolshoi and New York City Ballet. He is also a choreographer, and the founder of Kozlov Dance International and Youth Dance Festival of New Jersey.-Biography:...
- Cornel Crabtree
- Kipling Houston
- Lindsay Fischer
Reviews
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DF123AF93AA35756C0A96E948260NY Times review by Bernard HollandBernard HollandBernard Holland is an internationally recognized American music critic. He served on the staff of The New York Times from 1981 until 2008 and held the post of chief music critic from 1995, contributing 4,575 articles to the newspaper....
, May 9, 1988] - NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, May 22, 1988