Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Fancy Free (1944)

ballet music for orchestra


stage work

  • General information
    • Composition date : 1944
    • Video, installation (detail, author) : chorégraphie de Jerome Robbins
    • Duration : 27 mn
    • Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes
    • Commission: Ballet Theatre
    • Dedication : à Adolph Green
Detailed formation
  • 2 flutes (also piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 2 percussionists [ou 3] , piano, strings

Premiere information

  • Date : 18 April 1944
    Location :

    États-Unis, New York, Metropolitan Opera House


    Performers :

    le Ballet Theatre Orchestra, direction : Leonard Bernstein.

Observations

Une chanson écrite par Bernstein, « Big Stuff », ouvre le ballet.

Table of contents

I. Enter Three Sailors ; II. Scene at the Bar ; III. Enter Two Girls ; IV. Pas de Deux ; V. Competition Scene ; VI. Variation 1: Galop, Variation 2: Waltz, Variation 3: Danzon ; VII. Finale.