Elliott Carter (1908-2012)
Pocahontas (1939)
ballet-légende en un acte, pour orchestre
œuvre scénique
- Informations générales
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Date de composition :
1939
- Durée : 35 mn
- Éditeur : Associated Music Publishers
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Date de composition :
1939
- Genre
- Musique instrumentale d'ensemble [Grand orchestre type "bois par 3" (ou plus)]
Effectif détaillé
- 3 flûtes, 2 hautbois, 2 clarinettes, 2 bassons, 4 cors, 3 trompettes, 3 trombones, tuba, timbales, 4 percussionnistes, harpe, piano, cordes
Information sur la création
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Date :
24 mai 1939
Lieu :États-Unis, New York
Interprètes :le Ballet Caravan, direction : Fritz Kitzinger.
Observations
- Suite pour orchestre de Pocahontas. Publication Edwin Kalmus, version révisée en 1961. Pub. AMP, 20 min.
- enregistrement : American Composers Orchestra, direction : Paul Dunkel, CRI 610.
Note de programme
While I was a student in Paris the choreographer George Balanchine had two weeks of Balanchine ballets in the Champs Élysée. A man I'd known in college, Lincoln Kirstein, was very much impressed by this and it was he that got George Balanchine to come over to the United States and start the New York City Ballet. In the early days, I was a musical advisor to that for a while. I was commissioned actually to write one ballet for them, which was done in 1939 on the subject of Pocahontas.
Elliott Carter.
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