Pillar of Fire is a thirty-minute dramatic ballet choreographed in the 1940s by Antony Tudor to Arnold Schoenberg composition Verklarte Nacht, Op. 4. The music was inspired by a nineteenth-century German poem set in a time when a child born out of wedlock was not condoned in polite society, and the ballet dramatizes a pregnant woman who fears her fiance will not marry her, only for him to accept the pregnancy and tell her the child will be considered his.
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Year Created MediumDramatic ballet, thirty minutes 1 LocationMetropolitan Opera House, New York 1 Medium
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WikipediaPerformance history section, first sentence (date)
The performance was first produced by Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre) at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 8, 1942.
lead paragraph, first sentence
Pillar of Fire is a 30-minute dramatic ballet choreographed in the 1940s by Antony Tudor to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4.
Performance history section, first sentence (venue)
The performance was first produced by Ballet Theatre (now American Ballet Theatre) at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 8, 1942.
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The ballet was Tudor's first piece choreographed in the United States after moving from his home in London.
Created By: Arnold Schoenberg, Lead
choreographed in the 1940s by Antony Tudor to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht
In Group: Ballets from Literature, Lead
The music was inspired by a nineteenth century German poem, "Weib und die Welt" (Woman and the World), that is set in a time when a child born out of wedlock was not condoned in polite society.
In Form: Ballet, lead paragraph
Pillar of Fire is a 30-minute dramatic ballet choreographed in the 1940s by Antony Tudor to Arnold Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4. The music was inspired by a nineteenth century German poem, "Weib und die
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