Dance Preludes

Dance Preludes was a ballet made by Miriam Mahdaviani^[1] of New York City Ballet to Witold Lutosławski's 1955 music as a pièce d'occasion for the Dancers' Emergency Fund Benefit on 24 February 1991 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center. The program also included George Balanchine's Serenade, the pas de deux from his Theme and Variations, Robert La Fosse's Gretry Pas de Deux, Sean Lavery's Romeo and Juliet, Alexandre Proia's Salome Dances for Peace, and ended with Balanchine's Stars and Stripes.

Original cast

• Wendy Whelan
• Albert Evans

Reviews

• NY Times review by Anna Kisselgoff, February 26, 1991

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Witold Lutosławski

List of compositions

Symphonies

• Symphony No. 1 (1947)
• Symphony No. 2 (1967)
• Symphony No. 3 (1983)
• Symphony No. 4 (1992)

Other orchestral

• Concerto for Orchestra (1954)
• Musique funèbre (1958)
• Jeux vénitiens (1961)
• Cello Concerto (1970)
• Mi-parti (1976)
• Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra (1980)
• Piano Concerto (1988)

Vocal

• Twenty Polish Christmas Carols (1946, 1989)
• Les Espaces du sommeil (1975)
• Chantefleurs et Chantefables (1991)

Ballet

• Dance Preludes (1955)

Chamber

• Variations on a Theme by Paganini (1941)
• String Quartet (1964)

Related articles

• Sacher hexachord
• Sonorism
• Witold Lutosławski: String Quartet

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