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Adams Violin Concerto
''Adams Violin Concerto'' is a ballet made by Peter Martins, New York City Ballet's ballet master in chief, set to eponymous music from 1994 by John Adams. It was commissioned jointly by the Minnesota Orchestra and City Ballet. The ballet premiere took place on 1 June 1995 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; the third movement was danced earlier under the title ''X-Ray''. Original cast *Darci Kistler *Wendy Whelan *Jock Soto *Nikolaj Hübbe *Nilas Martins This is a list of New York City Ballet dancers. Principal dancers Soloists This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. Corps de ballet The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. * Victor Abreu * Devin Albe ... {{col-end External links NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, June 3, 1995 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Martins
Peter Martins (born 27 October 1946) is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he was solely responsible for artistic leadership of City Ballet. Early life Martins was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark.Mary Ellen Snodgrass (2015)''The Encyclopedia of World Ballet,''Rowman & Littlefield. His parents were Børge Martins, an engineer, and Tove Christa Ornberg, a pianist. His maternal aunt and uncle, Leif and Elna Ornberg, members of the Royal Danish Ballet, started teaching him ballroom combinations when he was five years of age; when he applied to ballet school, however, he was the subject of discrimination because his aunt and uncle had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier troupes: the Producing Company of the School of American Ballet, 1934; the American Ballet, 1935, and Ballet Caravan, 1936, which merged into American Ballet Caravan, 1941; and directly from the Ballet Society, 1946. History In a 1946 letter, Kirstein stated, "The only justification I have is to enable Balanchine to do exactly what he wants to do in the way he wants to do it."Alastair Macaulay, "A Paragon of the Arts, as Both Man and Titan" (review of Martin Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violin Concerto (John Adams)
The Violin Concerto by the American composer John Adams was written in 1993. Its premiere was on January 19, 1994, by Jorja Fleezanis with the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Edo de Waart, at the Ordway Music Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota. The piece was co-commissioned by the New York City Ballet, leading to a strong sense of rhythm throughout the entire work. For it, Adams received the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. A typical performance lasts around 35 minutes. The Violin Concerto has been described as "the most original approach to the genre since the Alban Berg Concerto". Structure The work is in three movements: It is dedicated to the memory of David Huntley of Boosey & Hawkes. Instrumentation The work calls for solo violin accompanied by an orchestra with the following instrumentation. ;Woodwinds : 2 flutes (both doubling piccolos) : 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais) : 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet) : 2 bassoons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer and conductor whose music is rooted in minimalism. Among the most regularly performed composers of contemporary classical music, he is particularly noted for his operas, which are often centered around recent historical events. Apart from opera, his ''oeuvre'' includes orchestral, concertante, vocal, choral, chamber, electroacoustic and piano music. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Adams grew up in a musical family, being regularly exposed to classical music, jazz, musical theatre and rock music. He attended Harvard University, studying with Kirchner, Sessions and Del Tredici among others. Though his earliest work was aligned with modernist music, he began to disagree with its tenets upon reading John Cage's '' Silence: Lectures and Writings''. Teaching at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Adams developed his own minimalist aesthetic, which was first fully realized in ''Phrygian Gates'' (1977) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded originally as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1903, the Minnesota Orchestra plays most of its concerts at Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall. History Emil Oberhoffer founded the orchestra as the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in 1903, and it gave its first performance on November 5 of that year in Minneapolis's Exposition Building. In 1968, the orchestra changed its name to the Minnesota Orchestra. It makes its home in downtown Minneapolis at Orchestra Hall, which was built for the ensemble in 1974. The orchestra's previous hall, starting in 1929, was Northrop Memorial Auditorium on the University of Minnesota's Minneapolis campus. Financial concerns In 2007 the Minnesota Orchestra's assets began declining, a trend exacerbated by the financial crisis of 2007–2008. In August 2008, the Minnesota Orchestra Association's invested assets totaled $168.5 million, 13% less than the $192.4 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York State Theater
The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center, at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally named the New York State Theater, the venue has been home to the New York City Ballet since its opening in 1964, the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall, and served as home to the New York City Opera from 1964 to 2011. The theater occupies the south side of the main plaza of Lincoln Center, opposite David Geffen Hall. History The New York State Theater was built with funds from the State of New York as part of New York State's cultural participation in the 1964–1965 World's Fair. The theater was designed by architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, opened on April 23, 1964. After the Fair, the State transferred ownership of the theater to the City of New York. The City leases the theater to Lincoln Center ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 million visitors annually. It houses internationally renowned performing arts organizations including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Juilliard School. History Planning A consortium of civic leaders and others, led by and under the initiative of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III, built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of New York's urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s."Rockefeller Philanthropy: Lincoln Center" ( |
X-Ray (ballet)
''X–Ray'' is a ballet made by New York City Ballet balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to John Adams' 1994 Violin Concerto, commissioned jointly by the Minnesota Orchestra and City Ballet. The ballet premiere took place Tuesday, November 22, 1994, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center; since June 1995 it has been performed as the third movement of Martins' ''Adams Violin Concerto'' ballet. Original cast *Darci Kistler *Nikolaj Hübbe *Wendy Whelan *Nilas Martins This is a list of New York City Ballet dancers. Principal dancers Soloists This is a list of New York City Ballet soloists. Corps de ballet The following is a list of the current members of the corps de ballet. * Victor Abreu * Devin Albe ... Reviews NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, November 24, 1994 {{col-end Ballets by Peter Martins New York City Ballet repertory 1994 ballet premieres Ballets to the music of John Adams (composer) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darci Kistler
Darci Kistler (born June 4, 1964) is an American ballerina. She is often said to be the last muse for choreographer George Balanchine. Early life Kistler was born in Riverside, California, the fifth child (with four older brothers) of a medical doctor and his wife. Her brothers excelled in amateur wrestling, and she followed them into water-skiing, basketball, football and horseback riding. Ballet career At age 4, Kistler received her first tutu and began ballet training that same year. She claimed although she was always athletic, she could never keep to her brothers—so ballet turned out to be one cornerstone she had mastered. After seeing a ballet performance of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, she decided she wanted to take up ballet herself. She studied with Mary Lynn at Mary Lynn's Ballet Arts and later with Irina Kosmovska in Los Angeles. In early 1979, Kistler was selected to study at New York City Ballet's School of American Ballet (SAB), where she met George Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Whelan
Wendy Whelan (; born May 7, 1967) is an American ballet dancer. She was principal dancer with the New York City Ballet and performed with the company for 30 years, and toured in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Whelan has also been an influential guest artist with Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. In 2019, Whelan was named Associate Artistic Director of New York City Ballet. Early life Whelan was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, She started ballet at age three. After performing as a mouse in ''The Nutcracker'' with the Louisville Ballet, she began formal training, when she was eight, at the Louisville Ballet Academy. At age 12, she was diagnosed with severe scoliosis, and had to wear a brace. In 1981, after auditioning before Suzanne Farrell, she received a scholarship to the summer intensive program at the School of American Ballet. She was asked to stay in New York and train, but chose to return to Kentucky and study at the J. Graham Brown School, a public high school, bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jock Soto
Jock Soto (born 1965)Kisselgoff, Anna. "Not Only a Partner, a Dynamic Interpreter", ''The New York Times'', June 18, 2005. p. B7. is a former American ballet dancer and current ballet instructor. Career Jock Soto danced featured roles in over 40 ballets, of which more than 35 were created for him. While a student at the School of American Ballet (SAB) he danced the role of Luke in Peter Martins' ''The Magic Flute'', which was choreographed for SAB's 1981 workshop performances. It transferred to the New York City Ballet, and he retained his role. He joined New York City Ballet in 1981 and made his debut as Luke in ''The Magic Flute'' the following January. He was promoted to soloist in 1984 and to principal dancer in 1985. Soto danced the role of a parent in the 1993 film version of ''The Nutcracker'', a version based on the New York City Ballet production choreographed by George Balanchine. He gave his farewell performance on Sunday, June 19, 2005. The program featured balle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaj Hübbe
Nikolaj Hübbe (born 30 October 1967) is artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. Career Since becoming artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet, Hübbe has successfully staged new productions of Bournonville's ''Napoli'' (2009) and ''A Folk Tale'' (2011) as well as Marius Petipa's ''La Bayadère'' (2012). Farewell performance Hübbe's farewell at City Ballet was held at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, on 10 February 2008. Footnotes Reviews NY Timesby Alastair Macaulay Alastair Macaulay is an English writer and dance critic. He was the chief dance critic for '' The New York Times'' from 2007 until he retired in 2018. He was previously chief dance critic at '' The Times'' and Literary Supplement and chief theater ..., 12 February 2008NY Sun by Joel Lobenthal, 12 February 2008 Interview Reuters, 5 October 2007, ''New Danish ballet chief at home with heritage'' External links Archival footage of Nikolaj Hubbe and Darci Kistler performing Apollo in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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