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Balanchine Catalogue
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254.  Serenade 1948
  • Music
Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky (Serenade in C for string orchestra, Op. 48, 1880, with third and fourth movements reversed)
  • Choreography
George Balanchine
  • Production
Lighting by Jean Rosenthal. (1952, costumes by Karinska; 1964, lighting by Ronald Bates.)
  • Premiere
October 26, 1948, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Leon Barzin
  • Cast
Marie-Jeanne, Pat McBride, Herbert Bliss, Nicholas Magallanes; 4 female demi-soloists; 12 women, 4 men.
SONATINA; WALTZ; TEMA RUSSO; ELEGY
Performance Type
Ballet
See Also
  • *141. Serenade,
    193. Serenata (Serenade)
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Originally presented by the American Ballet, New York, 1935.
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