Ives, Songs

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Ives, Songs is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives:

  • "The Children's Hour"
  • "Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant"
  • "Waltz"
  • "The Cage"
  • "The See'r"
  • "Two Little Flowers"
  • "At the River and Serenity"
  • "He is There"
  • "Tom Sails Away"
  • "White Gulls"[1]
  • "Songs My Mother Taught Me"
  • "There is a Lane"
  • "In Summer Fields"
  • from the "Incantation"
  • "Autumn"
  • "Like a Sick Eagle"
  • "Elegie"

The premiere took place on February 4, 1988 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery by , costumes by Florence Klotz and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. The singer was Timothy Nolen and the pianist . Other works to the music of Ives in the City Ballet repertory include Peter Martins' Calcium Light Night, George Balanchine's Ivesiana and Eliot Feld's The Unanswered Question.

Original cast[]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ cut from the ballet in June, 1990

References[]

  • Repertory Week, New York City Ballet, Spring Season, 2008 repertory, week 5
  • Playbill, New York City Ballet, Friday, May 30, 2008

Articles[]

  • Anna Kisselgoff (February 14, 1988). "DANCE VIEW; 'Ives, Songs': A Rollicking, Exquisite Odyssey". The New York Times.

Reviews[]

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