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Liebeslieder walzer [excerpt, and] Theme and variations. Nov. 21, 1989 [videorecording]

Title: Liebeslieder walzer [excerpt, and] Theme and variations. Nov. 21, 1989 [videorecording] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine.
Publication: 1989.

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1 videodisc (NTSC) (35 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Uniform Title

Liebeslieder Walzer (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
Theme and variations (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Video.

Credits (note)

Liebeslieder walzer. Costumes by Barbara Karinska. Lighting by Mark Stanley.
Theme and variations. Costumes and scenery by Nicolas Benois.

Event (note)

Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on Nov. 21, 1989, for archival purposes.

Contents

Introduction / Kitty Carlisle Hart (5 min.) -- Liebeslieder walzer [excerpt] / music by Johannes Brahms; piano, Jeananne Albee and Gordon Boelzner; singers, Karen Hunt, Denise Woods, Paul Sperry, Scott Reeve; danced by Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins (7 min.) -- Theme and variations / music by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; danced by Merrill Ashley, Linsday Fischer, Zippora Karz, Julie Michael, Shawn Stevens, Kathleen Tracey, Ben Huys, Russell Kaiser, Nilas Martins, Gordon Stevens, with Antonia Franceschi, Margo Krody, Sherri LeBlanc, Rebecca Metzger, Sabrina Pillars, Teresa Reyes, Mandy-Jayne Richardson, Deborah Wingert, Charles Anderson, Albert Evans, Espen Giljane, Jerome Kipper, Robert Lyon, Francois Perron, Brian Reeder, Peter Stark (23 min.)

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2217

Title

Liebeslieder walzer [excerpt, and] Theme and variations. Nov. 21, 1989 [videorecording] / [presented by] New York City Ballet ; choreography by George Balanchine.

Imprint

1989.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Credits

Liebeslieder walzer. Costumes by Barbara Karinska. Lighting by Mark Stanley.

Theme and variations. Costumes and scenery by Nicolas Benois.

Performer

Danced by New York City Ballet: Suzanne Farrell, Peter Martins, Merrill Ashley, Linsday Fischer, Zippora Karz, Julie Michael, Shawn Stevens, Kathleen Tracey, Ben Huys, Russell Kaiser, Nilas Martins, Gordon Stevens, with Antonia Franceschi, Margo Krody, Sherri LeBlanc, Rebecca Metzger, Sabrina Pillars, Teresa Reyes, Mandy-Jayne Richardson, Deborah Wingert, Charles Anderson, Albert Evans, Espen Giljane, Jerome Kipper, Robert Lyon, Francois Perron, Brian Reeder, Peter Stark

Event

Videotaped in performance at New York State Theater, New York, on Nov. 21, 1989, for archival purposes.

Summary

This program marked the opening of New York City Ballet's 91st season. Kitty Carlisle Hart introduces the evening, reading letters of tribute to Suzanne Farrell from President George Bush, Governor Mario Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch.

Added Author

Balanchine, George, choreographer.

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Composer

Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Composer

Farrell, Suzanne, 1945- dancer.

Martins, Peter, 1946- dancer.

Ashley, Merrill, dancer.

Fischer, Lindsay, dancer.

Karz, Zippora, dancer.

Michael, Julie, dancer.

Stevens, Shawn, dancer.

Tracey, Kathleen, 1969- dancer.

Huys, Ben, dancer.

Kaiser, Russell, dancer.

Martins, Nilas, dancer.

Stevens, Gordon, dancer.

Carlisle, Kitty, 1910-2007, speaker.

Albee, Jeananne. Instrumentalist

Boelzner, Gordon. Instrumentalist

Karinska, Barbara, costume designer.

Benois, Nicola, 1901-1988. Designer

New York City Ballet.

Added Title

Liebeslieder Walzer (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Theme and variations (Choreographic work : Balanchine)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-2217

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