The Concert (ballet)

The Concert (or The Perils of Everybody) is a ballet made by Jerome Robbins, subsequently New York City Ballet's balletmaster, to Chopin's:

Polonaise in A major "Military", Op. 40, No. 1 Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Prelude in F minor, Op. 28, No. 18

Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 28, No. 16 Waltz in E minor, Op. posth. Prelude in A major, Op. 28, No. 7

Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 Mazurka in G major, Op. posth. 67, No. 1 Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47

The décor was by Saul Steinberg, the costumes by Irene Sharaff and the lighting by Ronald Bates; the premiere took place at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, on Tuesday, March 6th, 1956. Robbins made three subsequent ballets to Chopin's music: Dances at a Gathering, 1969; In the Night, 1970; and Other Dances, 1976, made on Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova.

Casts

original

Tanaquil LeClercq Todd Bolender Yvonne Mounsey Robert Barnett Wilma Curley

John Mandia Shaun O'Brien Patricia Savoia Richard Thomas

NYCB revivals

1983 Winter

Stacy Caddell Laurence Matthews Alexia Hess

Delia Peters Bart Cook

2008 Winter

Maria Kowroski Rachel Piskin Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Adam Hendrickson Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

2008 Winter tour to the Kennedy Center and London Coliseum

Sterling Hyltin[1] Rachel Piskin Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

2008 Spring — Jerome Robbins celebration

first cast

Sterling Hyltin Rachel Piskin Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

second cast

Sterling Hyltin Rachel Piskin Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Tom Gold Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

2008 Saratoga Springs

Sterling Hyltin Rachel Piskin Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

2009 Spring

Sterling Hyltin Stephanie Zungre Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

2009 Saratoga Springs

Sterling Hyltin Stephanie Zungre Ashley Laracey Georgina Pazcoguin Gwyneth Muller

Arch Higgins Andrew Veyette Austin Laurent Allen Peiffer Justin Peck

Footnotes

References

Repertory Week, NYCB, Winter season, 2008 repertory, week 1

Playbill, NYCB, Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Playbill, NYCB, Wednesday and Friday, June 4th and 6th, 2008

Reviews

NY Times, John Martin, March 7th, 1956 NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, November 26th, 1983

NY Times, Jennifer Dunning, May 15th, 2001 NY Times, Alastair Macaulay, January 5th, 2008

External links

NYCB website

Robbins Foundation and Trust website

Jerome Robbins Film West Side Story (1961) Plays Peter Pan (1954) Ballets 2 and 3 Part Inventions Afternoon of a Faun Andantino Antique Epigraphs Brahms/Handel Brandenburg The Cage Circus Polka The Concert Dances at a Gathering Dybbuk Fancy Free Fanfare The Firebird Four Bagatelles The Four Seasons Gershwin Piano Concerto Glass Pieces The Goldberg Variations I'm Old Fashioned In G Major In Memory Of ... In the Night Interplay Ives, Songs Mother Goose Moves Les Noces NY Export: Opus Jazz Opus 19/The Dreamer Other Dances Piano Pieces Requiem Canticles Suite of Dances A Suite of Dances Tricolore Watermill West Side Story Suite

Ballets to the music of Frédéric Chopin The Concert Dances at a Gathering In the Night A Month in the Country Other Dances Les Sylphides (Chopiniana) Études Mazurkas Nocturnes Polonaises Waltzes List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin by genre List of compositions by Frédéric Chopin by opus number