Requiem Canticles (Balanchine)
- Requiem Canticles (Balanchine)
"Requiem Canticles" is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky "in memoriam" Martin Luther King, Jr. It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, conducted by Robert Irving with Margaret Wilson, contralto, and John Ostendorf, bass. Costumes and candelabra were by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting by Ronald Bates, the corps de ballet in long white robes bearing a three-branched candelabra. A lone woman searches among them and at the end a figure in purple representing Martin Luther King, Jr., is raised aloft.
Original cast
*Suzanne Farrell:"corps de ballet"
*Arthur Mitchell
External links
* [http://www.nycballet.com NYCB website]
* [http://www.balanchine.com George Balanchine Trust website]
* [http://www.balanchine.org George Balanchine Foundation website]
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E1FFF39541B7B93C1A9178ED85F4C8685F9 NY Times review, "Balanchine Presents His New Ballet as Tribute to Dr. King", May 3, 1968]
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