Music: By Ludwig van Beethoven (several waltzes, orchestrated by Nicolas Nabokov, and one of the Scottish Songs for cello and male voice).

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Scenery and costumes by Emilio Terry.

Premiere: June 19, 1933, Les Ballets 1933, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Conductor: Maurice Abravanel.

Cast: Daphne, Tilly Losch; The Elements, Companions of Daphne: Earth, Diana Gould; Water, T. Ouchkova; Air, Prudence Hyman; Fire, Tamara Sidorenko; Eros, Lucienne Kylberg; Apollo, Roman Jasinsky; The Train of Apollo, 4 women; The Shade of Apollo, Fernando Gusso.

Note: A Greek myth: Eros, with an arrow shot from his bow, inflames the god Apollo with love for the maiden Daphne. Seeking to escape Apollo's embraces, Daphne prays to the gods and is transformed into a laurel tree. Apollo grieves his loss at the foot of the laurel and is mocked in song by his own shadow: The laurel is thereafter consecrated to poetry.