brbropus39 Posted August 22, 2004 Posted August 22, 2004 Hi. I am choreographing a ballet to Samuel Barber's piano music, '"Excursions," and I was wondering if anyone knows if it has been used before. If so, who was the choreographer? I am also wondering if there is a CD that has the music from Balanchine's "Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux." Is it featured in recordings of the full -length "Swan Lake," even though it wasn't used in the ballet? Thank you.
carbro Posted August 22, 2004 Posted August 22, 2004 (from the fog of memory) Three of the four sections of T. pas are on the Bonynge full-length Swan. I seem to remember that the male var. is absent. Even if I could dig out the lp, I do not have a turntable at present, so . . . The parts are scattered along the length of the recording. It would take editing to put what's there together.
brbropus39 Posted August 23, 2004 Author Posted August 23, 2004 Thanks, Carbro. I appreciate the input.
brbropus39 Posted August 23, 2004 Author Posted August 23, 2004 One more question concerning tchai pas: What recordings of it are on film. I have Baryshnikov and Patty McBride, Peter Martins doing only the variation, Sascha Radetsky doing the variation in Center Stage, and a few broken up clips of the pas de deux with Eddie V. and D'Amboise from the bio of Balanchine on PBS. Any others that come to mind?
Mel Johnson Posted August 23, 2004 Posted August 23, 2004 There was at least one complete performance of it done on the "Bell Telephone Hour" but by whom, I cannot tell you, as nearly forty years have dimmed the memory of particulars. Edited to add: Or perhaps I was misrecalling, as I just searched for it, and found that it was danced on "Firestone Dances" a compilation of ballet performed on the "Voice of Firestone" (1962-63). It was danced by Melissa Hayden and Jacques d'Amboise. But I could still swear it was done by somebody else (Verdy and Villella?) on Bell.
Dale Posted August 23, 2004 Posted August 23, 2004 McBride also did the Tschaikovsky on a tape and DVD called Pas de Deux. Her partner (Reid Olson) was not distinguished. Darcey Bussell and Zoltan Solymosi also did the pas de deux on a tape called "Gala Tribute to Tchaikovsky." It can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...?v=glance&s=dvd The piece was done several times on Bell Telephone Hour but are not commercially available.
Jane Simpson Posted August 25, 2004 Posted August 25, 2004 I was at a screening of the film Violette et Mr B last night, in London, and it was followed by a piece from the BBC's archives showing Verdy and Villella in a studio performance of the Tchaikowsky pas de deux - fabulous!
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