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Introduction to the Database

Preface by Lincoln Kirstein
Background

Chronology: Life and Works
Roles Performed By Balanchine

Chronological Title List
Titles By Category

Festivals Directed By Balanchine
Bibliography
Filmography
Videography

Itineraries Undertaken by
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Research Resources
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373. SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS

Music: By Igor Stravinsky (1942-45, dedicated to the New York Philharmonic).

Choreography: By George Balanchine.

Production: Lighting by Ronald Bates.

Premiere: June 18, 1972, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater. Conductor: Robert Craft. (Annual New York City Ballet Gala Benefit.)

Cast: I. Sara Leland, Marnee Morris, Lynda Yourth, Helgi Tomasson, Edward Villella, Robert Weiss; 5 demi-solo women; 5 demi-solo men; 16 women; II. Leland, Villella; III. Entire cast.

Note: Included in the Stravinsky Festival. An ensemble ballet of driving energy, the first and third movements contrasting with a meditative pas de deux in the second movement. (See FESTIVALS DIRECTED BY BALANCHINE.)

Video/DVD: 2008, City Lights Media, Bringing Balanchine Back: The Historic Return to Russia (excerpts).

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1981 Zurich Ballet (Ballett des Opernhauses Zurich)

1987 Paris Opera Ballet

1989 Pennsylvania Ballet

1990 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

1990 Royal Ballet

1994 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

1994 Dutch National Ballet

1998 Birmingham Royal Ballet/Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

2000 Dutch National Ballet

2000 San Francisco Ballet

2003 Miami City Ballet

2005 Pacific Northwest Ballet

2007 Birmingham Royal Ballet

2007 Miami City Ballet

2007 Norwegian National Ballet

2008 Oper Leipzig

2009 Royal Danish Ballet

2011 Boston Ballet

2013 Boston Ballet

2013 Royal Danish Ballet

2013 San Francisco Ballet

2014 Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre

2015 Australian Ballet

2015 Miami City Ballet

2016 Ballet Arizona

2016 Miami City Ballet

2019 Het Nationale Ballet (Stitchting Nationale Opera and Ballet)