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Ballet in Two Scenes
Igor Stravinsky (Apollo Musagetes, 1927-28, commissioned by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
George Balanchine
Costumes by Karinska. Lighting by Jean Rosenthal
November 15, 1951, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama, New York. Conductor: Leon Barzin
Apollo, André Eglevsky; Terpsichore, Maria Tallchief; Calliope, Diana Adams; Polyhymnia, Tanaquil Le Clercq; Leto, Barbara Milberg; Handmaidens, Irene Larsson, Jillana
Performance Type
Ballet
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Originally presented by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Paris, 1928, titled Apollon Musagète. From 1957, titled Apollo and danced in practice clothes.
Ballet in Two Scenes
Igor Stravinsky (Apollo Musagetes, 1927-28, commissioned by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
George Balanchine
Scenery and costumes by Tomás Santa Rosa
June 30, 1941, American Ballet Caravan, Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro. Conductor: Emanuel Balaban
Apollo, Lew Christensen; Terpsichore, Marie-Jeanne; Calliope, Olga Suárez; Polyhymnia, Marjorie Moore; 2 Goddesses
Performance Type
Ballet
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Originally presented by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Paris, 1928.
Igor Stravinsky (Apollo Musagetes, 1927-28, commissioned by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge)
George Balanchine
Scenery and costumes by Stewart Chaney. Scenery executed by Studio Alliance; costumes executed by Helene Pons Studio. Wigs executed by Barris
April 27, 1937, American Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, New York. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Apollo, Leader of the Muses, Lew Christensen; Terpsichore, Elise Reiman; Calliope, Daphne Vane; Polyhymnia, Holly Howard; 2 Nymphs; Leto, Mother of Apollo, Jane Burkhalter
Performance Type
Ballet
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Originally presented by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Paris, 1928. Performed with the new works The Card Party and Le Baiser de la Fée as a Stravinsky Festival (April 27 and 28, 1937) by the American Ballet while in residence at the Metropolitan Opera House as the American Ballet Ensemble.
Igor Stravinsky (from Apollo Musagetes, 1927-28)
George Balanchine
Costume by Bouchène
June 29, 1932, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. Conductor: Roger Désormière. (Earlier in the summer performed in Brussels, for which no program has been found.)
Alice Nikitina
Performance Type
Concert Works
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In a shell washed up on the sand, a young fisherman listens to the sound of the sea and dances.
Source Notes

This and other numbers in the same concert (133.1-133.9) are described in Nikitina: By Herself, pp. 113-15. Concert program located by Barbara Newman.