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New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director.
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Western Symphony is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine to American folk tunes arranged by Hershy Kay. It premiered on September 7, 1954 at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York. [1]
The ballet continues to be a mainstay in the New York City Ballet's repertory. Between 1958 and 1961, Afternoon of a Faun was performed by Ballets: USA, Robbins' company, during their State Department -funded tours.
La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is a ballet by the co-founder and ballet master of New York City Ballet, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830–35).
Symphony in Three Movements is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to the music of the same name by Stravinsky. The ballet was made for the New York City Ballet Stravinsky Festival in 1972, a tribute to the composer following his death. The ballet premiered on June 18, 1972, at the New York State Theater .
The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet 's ballet master, to Chopin's : Waltz in E minor, Op. posth. The décor was by Saul Steinberg, the costumes by Irene Sharaff and the lighting by Ronald Bates.
Square Dance is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in B minor and the first movement of his Concerto Grosso in E major, Op. 3, nos. 10 and 12, respectively; in 1976 he added Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabanda, Badinerie e Giga, second and third movements.
Besides the many original roles that he created, Magallanes danced in almost every ballet in the New York City Ballet repertory. He was closely associated with Balanchine's Serenade , Concerto Barocco , Symphony in C , and The Four Temperaments . [16]
In Memory of ... is a ballet in one act made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Berg 's Violin Concerto ( To the Memory of an Angel) of 1935 (written on the death of Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler 's widow, and Walter Gropius ), based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song, and Bach's O ...