Requiem Canticles (Balanchine)
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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.[1] It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, conducted by Robert Irving with , contralto, and , 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.
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- New York City Ballet repertory
- Ballets by George Balanchine
- Ballets to the music of Igor Stravinsky
- Ballets designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
- Ballets designed by Ronald Bates
- 1968 ballet premieres