- General information
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Composition date :
1944
- Video, installation (detail, author) : chorégraphie de Jerome Robbins
- Duration : 27 mn
- Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes
- Commission: Ballet Theatre
- Dedication : à Adolph Green
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Composition date :
1944
- Type
- Instrumental ensemble music [Instrumental ensemble, one to a part]
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
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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.