"Serenading" New York.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After an absence of 22 years (not counting their 20 minutes at Fall for Dance last year), Pennsylvania Ballet The Pennsylvania Ballet is a ballet company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger. The company became a regionally important institution, and performed in New York for the first time in 1968. returns with two programs at City Center, Nov. 14-18. Showing their prowess as keepers of the Balanchine legacy, the company offers Serenade serenade [Ital. sera=evening], term used to designate several types of musical composition. Opera and song literature yield numerous examples of the serenade sung or played by a lover at night beneath his beloved's window; outstanding is on Program A and Concerto Barocco on Program B. Also on the first program is the world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 of Matthew Neenan's re-envisioned Carmina Burana carmina burana: see Goliardic songs. and Val Caniparoli's African-influenced lambarena, his third work in PAB's lively and varied repertoire. Neenan's As It's Going, to music by Shostakovich, is slated for the second program. See www.nycitycenter.org. |
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