"Rolling Stones, and Fleetingwood Mac. Numerous musical works are set in the city. ""Portsmouth Point"" is an overture for orchestra by the English composer William Walton in 1925. The work was inspired by Thomas Rowlandson's etching depicting Portsmouth Point, otherwise known as ""Spice Island"" in Old Portsmouth. The overture was used for the BBC Proms Concert in 2007. ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" is a comic opera in two acts set in Portsmouth Harbour, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. John Cranko's 1951 ballet ""Pineapple Poll"", which features the operetta music of ""The Bumboat Woman's Story"" by Gilbert and"
"Pineapple Poll Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. ""Pineapple Poll"" is based on ""The Bumboat Woman's Story"", one of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, written in 1870. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" was also based, in part, on this story. For the ballet, Cranko expanded the story of the Bab Ballad and added a happy ending. All the music is arranged from Sullivan's music. The piece premiered in 1951 at Sadler's Wells Theatre and was given many revivals internationally during the following decades. It remains"
"then return to the ship's deck, wearing their own clothes, and are welcomed back by their delighted boyfriends. The girls swoon at the sight of Jasper in his new Captain's uniform, but this time the sailors are able to keep their girlfriends in check, and all ends happily. Music for the ballet is taken from eleven of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, ""Cox and Box"" and the ""Overture di Ballo"", as specified below: Pineapple Poll Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. ""Pineapple Poll"" is based on ""The"
"Ballet, which was to form the basis of The Australian Ballet. In 1964, she returned as a principal artist with The Australian Ballet, having been invited to do so by its artistic director, Peggy van Praagh. In 1952, she married the musician John Lanchbery, they had a daughter, and the marriage ended in divorce. In 1960, she married 1960 plantation owner Les Farley, and they had two daughters. Elaine Fifield Elaine Fifield (28 October 1930 - 11 May 1999) was an Australian ballerina, perhaps best known for creating the title role in John Cranko's comic ballet ""Pineapple Poll"" in 1951."
"Elaine Fifield Elaine Fifield (28 October 1930 - 11 May 1999) was an Australian ballerina, perhaps best known for creating the title role in John Cranko's comic ballet ""Pineapple Poll"" in 1951. Elaine Fifield was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 28 October 1930. She trained at the Scully School and with Leon Kelloway, in Australia. In 1945, she won a Royal Academy of Dance scholarship, and trained at the Royal Ballet School. In 1947, Fifield joined Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, and in 1954 moved to The Royal Ballet. In 1957, she returned to Australia and joined the Borovansky"
"much to the educated as to the uneducated ear."" A section of the galop is the only music used by Sir Charles Mackerras in his ballet ""Pineapple Poll"" that is not taken from Sullivan's operas. The ""Overture di Ballo"" is the most frequently recorded of Sullivan's non-operatic compositions. As of 2009, recordings conducted by Sir Adrian Boult, Anthony Collins, Alexander Faris, Arthur Fiedler, Sir Charles Groves, Tom Higgins, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, John Pryce-Jones, and Sir Malcolm Sargent were or had been available in the UK. Overture di Ballo The Overture di Ballo is a concert overture by"
"music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) ""Peter and the Wolf"" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) ""Giselle"" (music by Adolphe Adam) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Cinderella"" (music by Prokofiev) ""Director's Choice"" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor"
"in Russia by the Royal Ballet, it was well received. The ballet was performed at Covent Garden from 1955-1964, with dancers such as Beryl Grey, Svetlana Beriosova, Philip Chatfield, and Ronald Hynd. It was revived by Sadler’s Wells Ballet from 1965–67, 1972–77 and in the 1980s. The score was recorded in June 1955 at Studio 1 Abbey Road by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Mackerras. A DVD of this was released in 2011 (also including ""Pineapple Poll""). During a prelude the curtain rises on a dark street with couples on their way to a ball (music from ""Alzira"").<br> A sad"
"ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Ninette de Valois, and two South Africans, David Poole and John Cranko. Noted for his performances as Jasper the Pot Boy in ""Pineapple Poll"" and as Bootface in ""The Lady and the Fool"", both choreographed by Cranko, Mosaval was also acclaimed as the Blue Boy in ""Les Patineurs"" and as Puck in ""The Dream"", both choreographed by Ashton, as well as the Blue Bird in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". He developed a global reputation as a brilliant character dancer with impeccable technique. One Scottish critic wrote about his performance as Puck in 1967: ""Puck"
"recorded at least seven times, including four performances conducted by Mackerras himself. Gervase Hughes wrote, ""Although the orchestration is disfigured by over-reliance on ""glissando"" harps and succulent counter-subjects for the horns, much of the music comes over well in its new guise, and the combination of a melody from the opening chorus of ""Patience"" with the second act quintet from ""The Gondoliers"" is quite brilliant."" A black-and-white studio film of ""Pineapple Poll"", danced by the Royal Ballet, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mackerras, was broadcast by BBC television in 1959. It starred Merle Park, David Blair and Stanley"
"Piper led to a second departure in his professional career: stage design. In connexion with the Festival of Britain, Sadler's Wells Ballet mounted a new work, ""Pineapple Poll"" by John Cranko, and approached Piper to design it. He could not take the commission and recommended his colleague. This was an opportunity Lancaster had keenly awaited since he was eleven, when his mother took him to see Diaghilev's production of ""The Sleeping Beauty"". He recalled ""the dazzling beauty of the Bakst sets and the intensity of my own response. ... There and then I formed an ambition that was not destined"
"conscious use of well-known melodies that were suitable to establish period and local color and to facilitate the audience's understanding of the extensive mime. The ballet's composer Holger Simon Paulli attempted to evoke Paris in the 1820s and 1830s. The ballet opens with Paulli's orchestrated version of Weber's concert waltz, ""Invitation to the Dance"". Later in the score Paulli utilised Chopin's ""Grande valse brillante"" in E-flat major and Paisiello's aria ""Nel cor più non mi sento"" from the opera ""La Molinara"". The divertissement in act 1 (Pas d'école) relies heavily on musical borrowings and the well-known ""pas de trois"" employs"
"Boris Fitinhof-Schell Baron Boris Alexandrovich Fitinhoff-Schell, a.k.a. Baron Boris Vietinghof-Scheel or Baron Schell (, translit. Boris Aleksandrovich Fitinhof-Shel) (1829? in Morshansk – in St. Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian composer. Fitinhoff-Schell was trained at the Moscow Conservatory under Field and Henselt, and was a classmate of Tchaikovsky's. His most noted work are the ballets ""The Haarlem Tulip"" (1887) and ""Cinderella"" (1893), composed for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg. He also scored four operas for the St. Petersburg Imperial Opera, which were commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres. His ""Wedding March"", scored especially for the wedding of"
"mal Gardee"", ""Valses nobles et sentimentales"" and ""Jazz Calendar""; Dame Ninette de Valois' ""Checkmate"" and ""The Rake's Progress""; John Cranko's ""Pineapple Poll""; Christopher Wheeldon's ""There Where She Loves"" and ""The American""; Michel Fokine's ""Les Sylphides"" and ""Petrushka"" and Rudolf Nureyev's ""Raymonda Act III"". Sarasota Ballet The Sarasota Ballet is an American ballet company based in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1990 by former principal ballerina and choreographer Jean Allenby-Weidner and is now acclaimed for its performances of Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets under its director Iain Webb. In 1987, Jean Weidner founded The Sarasota Ballet as a presenting organization, establishing"
"including a popular melody of the time, ""La Melancholie"", composed by the violin virtuoso François Prume. Bournonville asked Hans Christian Lumbye, later to become the famous Tivoli Gardens composer, to provide the music for the concluding galop that follows Paulli's tarantella. Bournonville recounts in his memoirs how, during a monotonous carriage journey, he spent hours humming what became the first three sections of the tarantella in Act III. The tarantella became the inspiration for the creation of the ballet. In Act I, Rossini's slander aria from ""The Barber of Seville"" is used as the basis for Peppo's slander scene; the"
"Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the ""Neue Sachlichkeit"" (new objectivity) style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle ""Das Marienleben"" (1923), ""Der Schwanendreher"" for viola and orchestra (1935), and opera ""Mathis der Maler"" (1938). Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is likely the ""Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber"", written in 1943. Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin"
"inspiration not only among fellow composers but also among choreographers and singer-performers. Dancers who have staged ""Pierrot lunaire"" include the Russian-born American Adolph Bolm (1926), the American Glen Tetley (1962), the German (2010) and the French (2011). Also, the avant-garde ‘’Triadic Ballet’’ (1923) by Oskar Schlemmer and Paul Hindemith was inspired by Schoenberg’s song-cycle. The theatrical/operatic possibilities of Schoenberg's score have been realized by at least two major ensembles: the Opera Quotannis, which staged a version of ""Pierrot lunaire"" (with singer Christine Schadeberg) at the New School for Social Research in 1995 and, more recently, the internationally acclaimed contemporary music"
"Il pesceballo Il pesceballo (The Fish-Ball) is a 19th-century American pasticcio opera in one act featuring the music of Bellini, Donizetti, Mozart, and Rossini, with a spoof Italian libretto by Francis James Child which makes use of some of grand opera's most popular melodies. The recitatives and chorus parts were written by John Knowles Paine, and James Russell Lowell translated the libretto into English. Child was a Harvard English professor and opera lover, and the text was originally inspired by an incident which occurred to a colleague of his. One evening George Martin Lane was trying to make his way"
"music by Philip Feeney) ""The Nutcracker"" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) ""Romeo and Juliet"" (choreography by Derek Deane, music by Sergei Prokofiev) ""Ballet Director's Choice"" (includes ""Pillar of Fire"" choreographed by Antony Tudor, music by Arnold Schoenberg; ""Brief Fling"" choreographed by Twyla Tharp, music by Michel Colombier and Percy Grainger; and a third work) Colorado Ballet's 2016-2017 season opened on October 7, 2016. ""Swan Lake"" (choreography after Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov set and updated by former American Ballet Theatre principals Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner and Sandra Brown, Ballet Mistress for Colorado Ballet, music by"
"became a successful ballet composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1959. He composed three ballet scores for the choreographer Martha Graham: ""Embattled Garden"" (1958), ""Acrobats of God"" (1960), and ""The Owl and the Pussycat"" (1978). He also composed ""Feast of Ashes"" for the Joffrey Ballet. His Harp Concerto was commissioned by Charles Royce for his daughter Maria. The premiere was in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1978, with Nicanor Zabaleta playing the solo part. The concerto was then performed by Maria Royce at Interlochen. The Surinach Harp Concerto has not been played since. Surinach also orchestrated part of Isaac Albéniz's"
"a well-known duet for tenor and baritone titled ""Enzo Grimaldo"", the soprano set-piece ""Suicidio!"", and the ballet section known as ""The Dance of the Hours"", which is universally known largely thanks to its feature in Walt Disney's ""Fantasia"" in 1940, Allan Sherman's novelty song, ""Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh"", and numerous other popular works. An Amilcare Ponchielli Bibliography- Books, Collections, Proceedings and Correspondence Periodicals Dissertations Amilcare Ponchielli Amilcare Ponchielli (, 31 August 1834 – 16 January 1886) was an Italian opera composer, best known for his opera ""La Gioconda"". He was married to the soprano Teresina Brambilla. Born in Paderno Fasolaro"
"The Lady and the Fool The Lady and the Fool is a comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with lesser-known operatic music by Giuseppe Verdi arranged by Sir Charles Mackerras. The story concerns the love of a poor clown for a society beauty, who finally rejects her wealthy suitors and chooses a life with the clown. After the success of ""Pineapple Poll"", Mackerras and Cranko sought a new collaboration, eventually deciding on adapting music by Verdi to a story by Cranko. The piece was premiered in 1954 at the New Theatre, Oxford, with its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells"
"by Werner Andreas Albert. An annual festival of Hindemith's music is held at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. It features student, staff, and professional musicians performing a range of Hindemith's works. Notes Sources Further reading Paul Hindemith Paul Hindemith (; 16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a prolific German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. In the 1920s, he became a major advocate of the ""Neue Sachlichkeit"" (new objectivity) style of music. Notable compositions include his song cycle ""Das Marienleben"" (1923), ""Der Schwanendreher"" for viola and orchestra (1935), and opera ""Mathis der Maler"" (1938). Hindemith's most"
"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"
"that inspired the ballet. It was published by Templar in the UK and Candlewick Press in 2010 to celebrate the ballet's centenary. It won an Aesop Accolade in the US and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award in the UK. The paperback was published in 2014. Stravinsky was a major influence in popular and erudite United States composer Frank Zappa and the melody for ""Berceuse"" can be heard in his 1967 album ""Absolutely Free"", in the Amnesia Vivace section of the ""Duke of Prunes"" suite. The orchestra hit chord that opens the Infernal Dance section has become a widely"
"Requiem Canticles (Balanchine) Requiem Canticles is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky ""in memoriam"" Martin Luther King, Jr. It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, conducted by Robert Irving with Margaret Wilson, contralto, and John Ostendorf, bass. Costumes and candelabra were by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting by Ronald Bates, the corps de ballet in long white robes bearing a three-branched candelabra. A lone woman searches among them and at the end a figure in purple"
"Festival. His other works include ""Persnickety"", ""Between the Lines"" and ""Perpetual Cycles"" for New Jersey Ballet and ""Cinderella"" for the Alabama Ballet/Ballet South. Recent choreography highlights include his original production of ""Romeo and Juliet"" for New Jersey Ballet, which is still part of the company's repertoire, and an original dance piece, ""Again Fifth"", for Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, performed at the Byham Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He choreographed in a wide range of dance styles for theater performances, recitals, competitions, special events and individual performers. Renvall's choreography has received praise from audiences and critics alike. As a teacher in New York"
"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"
"and ""Porgy and Bess"". Citations George Gershwin George Jacob Gershwin (; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ""Rhapsody in Blue"" (1924) and ""An American in Paris"", the songs ""Swanee"" (1919) and ""Fascinating Rhythm"" (1924), the jazz standard ""I Got Rhythm"" (1930), and the opera ""Porgy and Bess"" (1935) which spawned the hit ""Summertime"". Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career"
"the score for the ""Psychosomatic Wellness"" CD by Dr. Candace Pert. Lanny Meyers Lanny Meyers is an American composer, orchestrator, principal arranger and musical director. He has composed the ballet ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet and Oklahoma City Ballet), ""The Hunt of the Unique-Horn"" (Long Beach Ballet Co.), film scores for the 1992 Sundance Award winning documentary """", New Line Cinema's ""The First Time"" (1983), and many award-winning animated films for Buzzco Assoc. He arranged and orchestrated ""The Berenstain Bears Show"" TV series, and, (with Rupert Holmes), the cable TV series ""Remember WENN"" (1996). He also"
"P. I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music by P. I. Tchaikovsky) ""Ballet MasterWorks"" (includes ""The Firebird"" choreographed by Yuri Possokhov, music by Igor Stravinsky; Serenade choreographed by George Balanchine, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky; and Petite Mort choreographed by Jiří Kylián, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ""The Little Mermaid"" (choreography by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, music by Michael Moricz), opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) Colorado Ballet's 2015-2016 season opened on October 2, 2015. ""La Sylphide"" (choreography by August Bournonville, music by Herman Severin Løvenskiold) ""The Nutcracker"" (choreography after Marius Petipa, music"
"as it had been used for nearly every revival of the ballet since the late 19th century, but after close inspection of this music Ashton decided it would not suit his plans for the revival. At the suggestion of the ballet historian and musicologist Ivor Guest, Ashton studied the 1828 score by Ferdinand Hérold, and found the light, simple music more suitable for his conception. Ashton then commissioned the Royal Opera House's composer and conductor John Lanchbery to orchestrate and edit Hérold's score. After becoming frustrated with the under-developed nature of this music, Ashton and Lanchbery decided that Hérold's music"
"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"