0171Apollo_Balanchine

George Balanchine, 1904 – 1983, choreopgraphy. Apollon musagéte. Ballet. Music, Stravinsky. First performed 12 June 1928, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Théatre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris; sets and costumes, André Bauchant.

credit — Bolshoi Russia.com http://www.bolshoyrussia.com/performance/Apollon_Musagete/

In the ballet, Apollo is instructed in the arts by three muses — Calliope, Polyhymnia, and Terpsichore. She reveals dancing to the world.

choreographed to the music by Igor Stravinsky (first performed 27 April 1928; choreographed originally by Adolph Bolm).

Apollon musagéte is (with Prodigal Son) one of the two out of 10 ballets choreographed by Balanchine in Ballets Russes.

Balanchine [a two-part documentary film], Dance in America (28 May and 4 June 1984) Kultur, 2004.

— a segment, chapter 4 is saved as mpg4 under DMGs and .movs

Bernard Taper, Balanchine, a Biography (New York: Times Books, 1984): 98 – 104.

Katherine Sorley Walker, De Basil’s Ballets Russes (New York: Athenaeum, 1983): 20.

The Conside Oxford Dictionary of Ballet, based on Friedrichs Ballettlexikon von A – Z (Berlin: 1972), 2^nd ed. Edited by Horst Koegler (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1982): 18.

Revived/revised 27 April 1937, American Ballet Ensemble, Metropolitan Opera, New York; 1947, L’Opéra, Paris; 1951; 1960.

Taper, 173, 216, 358 – 61

L. Kirstein, Thirty Years: Lincoln Kirstein’s “The New York City Ballet,” (New York: Knopf, 1978): 62-66, 353.

Nancy Reynolds, Repertory in Review: Forty Years of the New York City Ballet (New York: Dial, 1977): 46 – 50.

Ivor Guest, Le ballet de l’opéra de Paris, trans. by Paul Alexandre (Paris: Théatre National de l’Opéra, Toly, 1976).

The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.