- Liebeslieder Walzer
"Liebeslieder Walzer" is a ballet made by
New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmasterGeorge Balanchine toJohannes Brahms ' "Liebeslieder", op. 52, 1869, and "Neue Liebeslieder", op. 65, 1874, waltzes for piano duet and vocal quartet, set to poems by Daumer and Goethe. The premiere took place on November 22, 1960, New York, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, with "mise en scèn" byDavid Hays and costumes by Karinska. The duo pianists wereLouise Sherman and Robert Irving and the singersAngeline Rasmussen ,Mitzi Wilson ,Frank Poretta andHerbert Beattie .Scenario
The musicians and dancers appear on stage together in period costumes. The dancers wear formal evening dress and the women dancing slippers during the first set of eighteen waltzes in a cozy ballroom; after a brief lowering of the curtain they dance the next fourteen waltzes under a starry sky, the women in calf-length tulle skirts and pointe shoes. They leave the stage two by two and return in pairs in original costume to listen to the last waltz.
Original cast
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Diana Adams
*Melissa Hayden
*Jillana
*Violette Verdy *
Bill Carter
*Jonathan Watts
*Conrad Ludlow
*Nicholas Magallanes Film
*1973 RM Productions
Videography / DVD
*2004 Kultur "Balanchine" part I excerpts from 2005 Films du Prieuré "Violette et Mr. B"
Television
*1961 CBC Montreal, "L'Heure du Concert"
*1973 RM Productions
*1975BBC 2 London
*2004 PBS "Live from Lincoln Center: Balanchine 100" excerpt
*2004 French television "Violette et Mr. B" excerptSee also
*List of "Liebeslieder Walzer" stagings
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List of New York City Ballet repertory 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=F30C12FB3F551A7A93C1AB178AD95F448685F9 NY Times review by John Martin, November 23, 1960]
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10C15FB3955157B8EDDAE0894D8415B858AF1D3 NY Times review by
Clive Barnes , October 7, 1965]* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60D16FF3A5B167493C3AA178ED85F438785F9 NY Times review by Paul Hofmann, May 31, 1977]
* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1091EFC345C0C738EDDAC0894DC484D81 Sunday NY Times article by
Anna Kisselgoff , May 20, 1984]* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEED71339F93BA25755C0A963948260 NY Times review by Jack Anderson, June 18, 1985]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEFD8123BF932A25755C0A961948260 NY Times review by
Jennifer Dunning , June 11, 1987]* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/19/arts/dance/19bala.html NY Times review by
Roslyn Sulcas , May 19, 2006]
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