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The sanguine fan / by Ronald Hynd ; music by Elgar ; Rodney Greenberg, director. Graduation ball / by David Lichine ; music by Strauss II ; Rodney Greenberg, director.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballets.
- Genre:
- Filmed ballets.
- Internet videos.
- Ballets (Dance)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 5 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : BBC MCMLXXXI, 1981.
- System Details:
- digital
- video file
- Summary:
- British nobles get into a tizzy about a red fan and Austrian school girls go all atwitter at their last dance of high school, in the London Festival Ballet program of two short humorous ballets: Edward Elgar's The Sanguine Fan and Antal Doráti's Graduation Ball based on music by Johann Strauss II. The celebrated British ballerina and one-time partner of Rudolf Nureyev Dame Margot Fonteyn hosts the program. On the request of his close friend Lady Alice Stuart-Wortley, Edward Elgar composed The Sanguine Fan in 1917 as part of fundraising efforts for wartime charities. Premiered in London in 1917 as a mimed play (the performers were actors, not dancers), the one-act ballet only found favor in the second half of the 20th century with its revival by the conductor Sir Adrian Boult. The whimsical plot, a comedy of errors, follows two wealthy twin brothers who throw a party, compete for the affections of the same girl using a red-colored fan. Graduation Ball, also a one-act ballet, was devised as part of a collaboration between choreographer David Lichine and Hungarian-born conductor-composer Antal Doráti. Set to music arranged from works by Johann Strauss II, the ballet takes place in a high-class girls' finishing school in Vienna, and follows the girls of the graduating class through the evening of their grand end-of-school ball. Photo: Elgar's The Sanguine Fan in the London Festival Ballet's 1981 production.
- Participant:
- Margot Fonteyn, host ; Manola Asensio, Patricia Ruanne (1st work), Trevor Wood, David Long (2nd work), dancers ; London Festival Ballet ; Orchestra of the London Festival Ballet ; Terence Kern, conductor.
- Notes:
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Contains:
- Container of: Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934. Sanguine fan.
- Container of: Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899. Works. Selections; arranged.
- OCLC:
- 1045797372
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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