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In Memory of ... (ballet)

Index In Memory of ... (ballet)

In Memory of... is a ballet in one act made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to Berg's Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel) of 1935 (written on the death of Manon Gropius, daughter of Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler's widow, and Walter Gropius), based on themes from Mahler, a Carpathian folk song, and Bach's ''O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort'', BWV 20. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Alban Berg, Alma Mahler, Ballet, David H. Koch Theater, Gia Kourlas, Great Performances, Gustav Mahler, Jack Anderson (dance critic), Jennifer Tipton, Jerome Robbins, Joseph Duell, Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet, O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20, PBS, Playbill, Suzanne Farrell, Violin Concerto (Berg), Walter Gropius.

  2. 1985 ballet premieres
  3. Ballets by Jerome Robbins
  4. Ballets designed by Jennifer Tipton
  5. Ballets to the music of Alban Berg
  6. Ballets to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach

Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Alma Mahler

Alma Mahler-Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler; 31 August 1879 – 11 December 1964) was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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David H. Koch Theater

The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet and dance at Lincoln Center in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.

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Gia Kourlas

Gia Kourlas is an American dance critic.

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Great Performances

Great Performances is a television anthology series dedicated to the performing arts; the banner has been used to televise plays, musicals, opera, ballet, concerts, as well as occasional documentaries.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Jack Anderson (dance critic)

Jack Warren Anderson (June 15, 1935 – October 20, 2023) was an American poet, dance critic, and dance historian.

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Jennifer Tipton

Jennifer Tipton (born September 11, 1937) is an American lighting designer. In Memory of ... (ballet) and Jennifer Tipton are ballets designed by Jennifer Tipton.

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Jerome Robbins

Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.

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Joseph Duell

Joseph Duell (April 30, 1956 – February 16, 1986) was an American dancer and choreographer for the New York City Ballet.

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Lincoln Center

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.

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New York City Ballet

New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.

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O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort (O eternity, you word of thunder), 20, in Leipzig for the first Sunday after Trinity, which fell on 11 June in 1724.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Suzanne Farrell

Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Farrell began her ballet training as a child in Cincinnati.

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Violin Concerto (Berg)

Alban Berg's Violin Concerto was written in 1935.

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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

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See also

1985 ballet premieres

Ballets by Jerome Robbins

Ballets designed by Jennifer Tipton

Ballets to the music of Alban Berg

Ballets to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memory_of_..._(ballet)

Also known as In Memory Of... (ballet).