"pieces for piano four hands 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. Mother Goose (ballet) 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"
"ballet ""Western Symphony"", set in the American West. Kay later wrote the score for Balanchine's ""Stars and Stripes"", based on John Philip Sousa's music. A composer in his own right, Hershy Kay's reconstruction and orchestration of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's ""Grande Tarantelle"", Op. 67, for piano and orchestra July 24, 1957, later choreographed by Balanchine as ""Tarantella"", led to a renewed interest in Gottschalk's music. He also composed music for an LP, ""Mother Goose"", with the actors Boris Karloff, Cyril Ritchard and Celeste Holm; this was first released on Caedmon in 1958. In 1961, Kay conducted Eddie Sauter's Jazz compositions for"
"Mother Goose Melodies Mother Goose Melodies is a 1931 Silly Symphonies animated film, directed by Burt Gillett. Two years later it was semi remade in Technicolor as ""Old King Cole"". Old King Cole various Mother Goose characters go on a prade for his entertainment; including the Three Blind Mice as his ""fiddlers three"", Miss Muffet, Jack and Jill (who meet Simple Simon atop the hill), Humpty Dumpty, Jack Horner (his Christmas pie also containing the four and twenty blackbirds), Bo Peep (Boy Blue brings the sheep home, one of which falls in mud to become Baa Baa Black Sheep) and"
"opened at the New Theatre in New York (followed by the Majestic Theater) on October 1, 1910 and closed on January 21, 1911. Revivals were produced in 1911 and 1924. L'Oiseau bleu et la Princesse Florine appear in a Pas de deux, Act III of ""The Sleeping Beauty"", a ballet in three acts first performed in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (his Opus 66). The original scenario was conceived by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, and is based on Charles Perrault's ""La Belle au bois dormant"". Marius Petipa choreographed the original production. The premiere performance took place at the Mariinsky Theatre"
"Thetis Blacker Ann Thetis Blacker (13 December 1927 – 18 December 2006) was an English painter and singer. She was noted for her richly coloured pictures, especially using the batik wax-resist fabric dyeing process. Blacker was born in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England. She was the daughter of Carlos Paton Blacker, a psychiatrist, and granddaughter of Carlos Blacker, a friend of Oscar Wilde. Blacker intended to be a singer and studied with the German mezzo-soprano singer Elena Gerhardt in London. She appeared in the chorus at Glyndebourne opera in the 1950s and sang the role of ""Mother Goose"" in ""The"
"Ma mère l'Oye Ma mère l'Oye (""Mother Goose""; ""Oye"" is correctly capitalized, being a proper name) is a musical work by French composer Maurice Ravel. 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 (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, ""Sonatine"", to their parents). Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony premiered the work at the first concert of the Société musicale indépendante on 20 April 1910. The piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques"
"Carnaval (ballet) Carnaval (Russian: ""Карнавал"") is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite ""Carnaval"", Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March (old style, 20 February) 1910. The leading dancers of the Imperial Ballet were engaged in the production: Tamara Karsavina (Columbine), Leonid Leontiev (Harlequin), Vera Fokina (Chiarina), (Estrella), Bronislava Nijinska (Papillon), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Pierrot), Vasily Kiselev (Florestan), and (Eusebius). The ballet became world-famous due to its"
"substantial portion of the text with approximate pitched melodies. This version was first staged at the Munich Hoftheater, with Hedwig Schako as the goose girl, on 23 January 1897 and enjoyed some success. However, Else Bernstein-Porges finally relented in 1907 and agreed that Humperdinck could transform the work into an opera. """" was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 28 December 1910, conducted by Alfred Hertz, with Geraldine Farrar as the Goose-Girl, Herman Jadlowker as the King's Son, Louise Homer as the Witch and Otto Goritz as the Fiddler. Farrar trained her own flock of geese"
"the Cat, Cow and Little Dog. Mother Goose Melodies Mother Goose Melodies is a 1931 Silly Symphonies animated film, directed by Burt Gillett. Two years later it was semi remade in Technicolor as ""Old King Cole"". Old King Cole various Mother Goose characters go on a prade for his entertainment; including the Three Blind Mice as his ""fiddlers three"", Miss Muffet, Jack and Jill (who meet Simple Simon atop the hill), Humpty Dumpty, Jack Horner (his Christmas pie also containing the four and twenty blackbirds), Bo Peep (Boy Blue brings the sheep home, one of which falls in mud to"
"His balletic adaptation of the orchestral suite ""Sheherazade"", staged in 1910, drew the ire of the composer's widow, Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova, who protested in open letters to Diaghilev published in the periodical ""Rech."" Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin (""Narcisse et Echo"", 1911), Claude Debussy (""Jeux"", 1913), Maurice Ravel (""Daphnis et Chloé"", 1912), Erik Satie (""Parade"", 1917), Manuel de Falla (""El Sombrero de Tres Picos"", 1917), Richard Strauss (""Josephslegende"", 1914), Sergei Prokofiev (""Ala and Lolli"", 1915, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the ""Scythian Suite""; ""Chout"", 1915 revised 1920; ""Le pas d'acier"", 1926; and ""The Prodigal Son"","
"contes du temps passé, avec des moralités"" with the subtitle ""Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye"" (""Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals"", subtitled ""Mother Goose Tales""). The frontispiece to the earliest English editions depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard inscribed ""MOTHER GOOSE'S TALES"" and is credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English-speaking world. ""Puss in Boots"" has provided inspiration for composers, choreographers, and other artists over the centuries. The cat appears in the third act ""pas de caractère"" of Tchaikovsky's ballet ""The Sleeping Beauty"", and appears"
"Early 20th century examples of these include ""A dream of Mother Goose and other entertainments"" by J.C. Marchant and S.J. Mayhew (Boston, 1908); ""Miss Muffet Lost and Found : a Mother Goose play"" by Katharine C. Baker (Chicago, 1915); ""The Modern Mother Goose: a play in three acts"" by Helen Hamilton (Chicago, 1916); and the up-to-the-moment ""The Strike Mother Goose Settled"" by Evelyn Hoxie (Franklin Ohio and Denver Colorado, 1922). There have been numerous adaptations of Mother Goose with the classic nursery rhymes and adaptations with a distinct motif including: Mother Goose The figure of Mother Goose is the imaginary"
"of the first season of the Ballets Russes in Paris. At Ballets Russes, he collaborated with other artists to create a ballet of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ""Scheherazade"", which premiered in 1910. The ballet was inspired by symphonic poems composed by Rimsky-Korsakov and the tale of the 1001 Nights. The sets designed by Léon Bakst matched the sexualized choreography. Despite the lack of historical accuracy, the ballet was successful due to its brilliant colors, exoticism, and sexual overtones. The 1910 production featured Nijinsky in the role of the Golden Slave. ""The Firebird"" (1910) was also created by a ""committee,"" a process inspired"
"a rhythmic vitality largely absent from many major orchestral works of the later 19th century, and a directness of expression unhampered by quasi-symphonic complexities of texture and structure. The work is scored for an orchestra consisting of: The work consists of four movements: A ballet adaptation of ""Scheherazade"" premiered on June 4, 1910, at the Opéra Garnier in Paris by the Ballets Russes. The choreography for the ballet was by Michel Fokine and the libretto was from Fokine and Léon Bakst. This ballet provoked exoticism by showing a masculine Golden Slave, danced by Vaslav Nijinsky, seducing Zobeide, danced by Ida"
"of Couperin's keyboard pieces were part of a ""Ballettsoirée"" (ballet evening) which premiered on 17 February 1923 (as part of the Vienna Fasching or carnival), which consisted of four parts. Part 1 was ""François Couperin: social and theatrical dances in the manner of Louis XV"" based on books 1–4 of Couperin's ""Pièces de Clavecin"" (composed over the period 1713 to 1730). Part 2 was Maurice Ravel's ""Mother Goose"" which made its Viennese premier (with Ravel's orchestration). Part 3 was a selection of Rameau's music titled ""The Ballerina's suitors: a dance scene in Ballet style from the time of Louis XIV"""
"ballets ""The Nutcracker"", ""Swan Lake"", and ""The Sleeping Beauty""; as well as Alexander Glazunov for his score for the ballet ""Raymonda"". In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as ""Le Talisman"" (1889), ""Le Réveil de Flore"" (1894) and ""Les Millions d'Arlequin"" (1900). Cesare Pugni wrote extensively for the harp as well—his ballet ""Éoline, ou La Dryade"" included music written for harp to accompany the ballerina's numerous variations and enhance the atmosphere of the ballet's many fantastical scenes. Ludwig Minkus was celebrated for his harp cadenzas, most notably the ""Variation de la Reine"
"Bolshoi Ballet company. Despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled to compete with the reputation of the Imperial Russian Ballet, today's Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg. It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, ""Don Quixote"" (1900), ""Coppélia"" (1901), ""Swan Lake"" (1901), ""La fille mal gardée"" (1903), ""Giselle"" (1911), ""Le Corsaire"" (1912) and ""La Bayadère"" (1917). The Soviet leadership's preference for uncomplicated moral themes in the arts was demonstrated in Yuri Grigorovich's appointment as director"
"and songs titled ""The Midnight Hour"" and ""Love, I Will Love You Forever"". Ernest Bucalossi went to work for the D'Oyly Carte company in the early 1880s and succeeded his father as conductor at the Prince of Wales's Theatre in 1881. Until 1928, he was musical director at a variety of London theatres. Ernest is today best known for his ""Grasshopper's Dance"", and the rest of his compositions have slipped into obscurity. He primarily composed dances and descriptive pieces for light orchestra: the waltzes ""Queen of the North"", ""Pastorella"", ""La Gitana"" and ""Valse-Berceuse"" amongst others, the march ""Pennon and Plume"","
"of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and the Original Ballet Russe. She had in turn learned it from her teacher Pavel Gerdt, once the Imperial Ballet's leading male dancer who partnered all of the great ballerinas of the late 19th century and early 20th century in the role of Lise, including Virginia Zucchi. To inspire Lanchbery to write music for the ""Clog Dance"", Ashton took the composer to a performance of Lancashire clog dancers. This dance is performed in the ballet by Lise's mother, the Widow Simone. Lanchbery decided to use the leitmotiv for the Widow Simone from Hertel's score,"
"Les Orientales (ballet) Les Orientales is a choreographic divertissement by Michel Fokine. A production of Ballets Russes, it was first premiered on June 25, 1910 at the Theatre National de l'Opera in Paris. The ballet consisted of a series of oriental-themed dances performed by soloists Vaslav Nijinsky (Danse Siamoise and Kobold), Tamara Karsavina (Assyrian Dance), Vera Fokina, Alexander Orlov (Saracens’ Dance), Catherine Gheltzer, and Alexander Volinine (""pas de deux""). The dances were choreographed by Michel Fokine and Marius Petipa. The music was by Alexander Glazunov, Christian Sinding, Anton Arensky, and Edvard Grieg. Michel Fokine, who choreographed Vaslav Nijinsky’s ""Danse Siamoise"","
"Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in 1927 for a"
"these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Diaghilev's intention, however, was to produce new works in a distinctively 20th-century style, and he was looking for fresh compositional talent. Having heard ""Feu d'artifice"" he approached Stravinsky, initially with a request for help in orchestrating music by Chopin to create the ballet ""Les Sylphides"". Stravinsky worked on the opening ""Nocturne"" and the closing ""Valse Brillante""; his reward was a much bigger commission, to write the music for a new ballet, ""The Firebird"" (""L'oiseau de feu"") for the 1910 season. Stravinsky worked through"
"evokes a contest. Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in"
"an Indian temple dancer and Indian warrior. This ballet was based on Kalidasa's play ""Sakuntala"". ""La Bayadere"" used vaguely Indian costuming, and incorporated Indian inspired hand gestures into classical ballet. In addition, it included a 'Hindu Dance,' motivated by Kathak, an Indian dance form. Another ballet, ""Sheherazade"", choreographed by Michel Fokine in 1910 to music by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov, is a story involving a shah's wife and her illicit relations with a Golden Slave, originally played by Vaslav Nijinsky. The ballet's controversial fixation on sex includes an orgy in an oriental harem. When the shah discovers the actions of his numerous"
"Madame White Snake (opera) Madame White Snake is an opera with music by Zhou Long and libretto by Cerise Lim Jacobs, published by Oxford University Press. Awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music, it was premiered on Feb. 26, 2010, by Opera Boston at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. It is based on the Legend of the White Snake and was created by Jacobs as a gift to her now late husband. The Pulitzer Committee described the opera as, ""a deeply expressive opera that draws on a Chinese folk tale to blend the musical traditions of the East and the West."""
"The Firebird The Firebird (; ) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with a scenario by Alexandre Benois and Fokine based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner. When first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910, the work was an instant success with both audience and critics. The ballet has historic significance not only as Stravinsky's breakthrough"
"Chualann and Éamon de Buitléar's Ceoltóirí Laighean. The Chieftains arranged traditional music for ""The Playboy of the Western World"". Bernard Geary wrote the music for two ballets choreographed by Geoffrey Davidson for Irish Theatre Ballet: ""Bitter Aloes"" and ""Il Cassone"". Aloys Fleischmann composed the music for six Moriarty ballets: ""The Golden Bell of Ko"" (1948), ""An Cóitín Dearg"" [The Red Petticoat] (1951), ""Macha Ruadh"" [Red Macha] (1955), the two folk ballets ""Bata na bPlanndála"" [The Planting Stick] (1957) and ""Suite: The Cake Dance"" (1957) and ""The Táin"" (1981). This three-act ballet was commissioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival and premiered"
"Petrushka (ballet) Petrushka (; ) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky composed the music, and, with Alexandre Benois, fashioned the libretto. Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet; Benois designed the sets and costumes. ""Petrushka"" was first performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 13 June 1911. Vaslav Nijinsky portrayed Petrushka with Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina. Alexander Orlov portrayed the Moor, and Enrico Cecchetti the Charlatan. ""Petrushka"" tells the story of the loves and jealousies of three puppets. The three are brought"
"""The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained,"" edited by William S. Baring-Gould and his wife Lucile ""Ceil"" Baring-Gould. The original rhyme goes: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps suggests, in his preface to the poem, ""conjecturing the John Ball of the following piece to be the priest who took so distinguished a part in the rebellion temp. Richard II."" Kathleen Horning observes John Ball's ""challenge to England's aristocracy,"" and she suggests, ""It sounds like John Ball would have been right at home in the American political landscape of the 1960s, with the Woodstock generation trying to get itself"
"played on banjo in the track ""Russian Folk Themes and Yodel"" on Peter Seeger's album Goofing-Off Suite, released in 1955 on Folkways Records. Petrushka (ballet) Petrushka (; ) is a ballet burlesque in four scenes. It was composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947. Igor Stravinsky composed the music, and, with Alexandre Benois, fashioned the libretto. Michel Fokine choreographed the ballet; Benois designed the sets and costumes. ""Petrushka"" was first performed by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 13 June 1911. Vaslav Nijinsky portrayed Petrushka with Tamara Karsavina as the Ballerina. Alexander Orlov portrayed"
"into a deep sleep. In the oldest variants, the old woman is merely unaware and means no harm, but in some variants, such as Tchaikovsky's, the spinning woman is Carabosse, the wicked fairy godmother, herself, ensuring her curse. In Marius Petipa's ballet Sleeping Beauty with music composed by Tchaikovsky, Carabosse was portrayed as a frightening figure, entering each time to foreboding and dramatic music. Carabosse's role in the story enjoyed a spectacular rendition with the ballet ""The Sleeping Beauty"" in 1921, produced by Sergei Diaghilev, employing the original choreography by Marius Petipa as it was painstakingly recalled by several of"
"Girard de Beaulieu), the sets by Jacques Patin, and Beaujoyeulx, who created the scenario, choreographed, stage managed, and directed. Since it incorporated a story line about the legend of the mythological enchantress Circe, it is generally regarded as the first ballet. The title page of his published account of the event states that he was employed as valet de chambre to both the King (Catherine's son, Henry III) and the Queen (queen consort Louise of Lorraine). Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (also Balthasar de Beaujoyeux), originally Baldassare de Belgiojoso (died c. 1587 in Paris) was an Italian violinist, composer,"
"revival was not a success. Ballet impresario and producer Sergei Diaghilev staged two exotic ballets for the Ballets Russes: ""Cléopâtre"" in 1909 and ""Scheherazade"" in 1910, both great successes with the Parisian public. He hoped that ""Le Dieu bleu"" (another exotic ballet) would be equally successful. It was one of six new ballets for the 1911 Ballets Russes season. The others were ""Narcisse"", ""La Peri"", ""Le Spectre de la rose"", ""Sadko"", and ""Petrushka"". Michel Fokine choreographed all of them, while Léon Bakst designed the sets and costumes for the first four. When Fokine and Bakst started work on Ida Rubinstein's"