Variations (ballet)
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Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet
co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine
to Stravinsky's
Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam
(1963–64). The premiere took place on Thursday, March 31, 1966, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
; Balanchine made a new version for City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky Centennial Celebration.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Leon Barzin was the company's first music director. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company...
co-founder and founding choreographer George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
to Stravinsky's
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam
Variations (Stravinsky)
Variations: Aldous Huxley in memoriam is Igor Stravinsky's last orchestral composition, written in 1963–64.-History:Stravinsky began work on the Variations in Santa Fé, New Mexico in July 1963, and completed the composition in Hollywood, California on 28 October 1964...
(1963–64). The premiere took place on Thursday, March 31, 1966, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York City's Upper West Side. Reynold Levy has been its president since 2002.-History and facilities:...
; Balanchine made a new version for City Ballet's 1982 Stravinsky Centennial Celebration.
Reviews
- http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E17F635541A7493C3A9178FD85F428685F9NY Times review by Clive BarnesClive Barnes (critic)Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...
, April 1, 1966]