alison Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 Something which also came up in the Radio 3 "In Tune" interview with Gavin Sutherland just now was that he would love to do a ballet of Cinderella to music by Eric Coates. So, that got me thinking: is there existing music out there which you could use for an existing ballet title, perhaps without being constrained by the limitations of existing scores? Of course, it has been done already: Don Quixote by Gerhard(?), Romeo & Juliet by Delius are just a couple of examples, but there are probably more out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffolkgal Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 It’s not new music but I remember years ago the lovely, late, mark freeman at a ballet assoc event said he had choreographed a piece to ravel’s Pavane. I think that would be lovely. Someone at the same meeting mentioned Malcolm Arnold .. it’s all gentle but melodic. I love his English dances … 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 1 hour ago, Suffolkgal said: It’s not new music but I remember years ago the lovely, late, mark freeman at a ballet assoc event said he had choreographed a piece to ravel’s Pavane. I think that would be lovely. Someone at the same meeting mentioned Malcolm Arnold .. it’s all gentle but melodic. I love his English dances … Christopher Wheeldon's first main stage creation for RB was to Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte as well- a pas de deux for Bussell and Cope. A few critics were a bit dismissive of it but I thought it was a sweet, lyrical classical piece for the two dancers, and I bet lots of members here would prefer that to some non-classical items we have been offered lately! I would like to have seen Mark Freeman's creation too. Whenever anyone mentions Malcolm Arnold here I always say the same thing: can we have a revival of Bintley's Flowers of the Forest (set to Malcolm Arnold's music) please? Not to diminish his other music, but that's a gorgeous ballet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 There are relatively few ballets set to Handel's music, I think. Has anyone used the Fireworks Music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Maurice Béjart did his Romeo and Juliet with the Symphonie Dramatique "Roméo et Juliette" by Berlioz in 1966 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWzBy3uYjwI - as did Erich Walter for Wuppertal in 1966 and George Skibine for the Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas in 1959 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd-x4HUOQMQ and also Sasha Waltz used this score for Paris in 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlTx53N_E_c There is a ballet score for Romeo and Juliet by Constant Lambert: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/romeo-and-juliet-9780193652828 It was used by Nijinska (and somehow not by Balanchine) for the Ballets Russes in 1926: https://www.tumblr.com/balanchine-ballet-master/125199517048/balanchines-romeo-juliet https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200185262 There is music for a whole Cinderella ballet by Johann Strauß II called "Aschenbrödel", which has been used often in Austria or Germany, and which is used still, for example by Bridget Breiner for her Cinderella version called "Ruß" ("Soot") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aschenbrödel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2il75BVfRE There must be also a score by Frédéric d'Erlanger, as Mikhail Fokine made a Cinderella in 1938 for the Ballets Russes de Colonel W. de Basil Balanchine did his version of Don Quixote with a new score by Nicolas Nabokov https://www.balanchine.com/Ballet/don-quixote 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Oh, and that Coppelia movie by Het Nationale Ballet from 2021 got rid of the boring Delibes score and hired the famous Maurizio Malagnini to write new music 🙃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6vITTIeLQ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophoife Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Not exactly "new" music, but I'm always surprised when the POB La Sylphide doesn't use the Løvenskiold score. I understand why, it's just odd to hear the Schneitzhöffer, as I'm used to the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 1 hour ago, Angela said: Oh, and that Coppelia movie by Het Nationale Ballet from 2021 got rid of the boring Delibes score and hired the famous Maurizio Malagnini to write new music 🙃 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6vITTIeLQ Oh, please don't remind me! 🤢 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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