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Serenade (ballet)

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Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine set to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48, credited as Balanchine's first full length ballet made in America. Choreographed using students of his newly formed School of American Ballet, it received its first performance on June 10, 1934 on the Felix M. Warburg estate in White Plains, New York, and its official premiere took place on March 1, 1935 with the American Ballet at the Adelphi Theatre in New York, conducted by Sandor Harmati.

Facts
Year Created
1934 1
First performance by School of American Ballet students, 10 June 1934; the official premiere with the full company was 1 March 1935 (same lead paragraph).
Medium
Ballet 1
Location
White Plains, New York, United States 1
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Genre
Dance 1
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  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1
    Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 4
    Students of the School of American Ballet gave the first performance on Sunday, 10 June 1934 on the Felix M. Warburg estate in White Plains, N.Y., where Mozartiana had been danced the previous day.
  • Genre reference
    Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine set to Tchaikovsky's 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op.
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