Fanfare
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Music
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Opus.34 (1945), by Benjamin Britten
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Choreography
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Jerome Robbins
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Premiere
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June 2, 1953, New York City Ballet, City Center of Music and Drama
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Original Cast
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Jacques d'Amboise, Edward Bigelow, Todd Bolender, Robert Fletcher, Carolyn George, Frank Hobi, Jillana, Irene Larsson, Michael Maule
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Average Length
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20 min.
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), English composer, is noted for his vocal music, including song cycles, choral works, and operas (Peter Grimes (1945) and The Turn of the Screw (1954) are perhaps his most famous.) His War Requiem (1962), based on the anti-war poems of Wilfred Owen, was sung at the dedication of the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed by bombs in November, 1940. Fanfare, created in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, had its premiere on Coronation Night. The music, Britten's variations and a fugue on a theme by one of England's greatest composers, Henry Purcell (1659-1695), also celebrates the different instruments of the modern symphony orchestra.
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Music Credit
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| Title: |
PROKOFIEV: Peter & The Wolf / BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 |
| Composer: |
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) |
| Date Written: |
1946 |
| Conductor: |
Ondrej Lenard |
| Ensemble: |
Slovak State Symphony Orchestra |
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