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New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)

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Martha Swope photographs

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Series VI. Digitized slides and mounted negatives

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New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)

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Title
New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)
Names
Swope, Martha (Photographer)
Collection

Martha Swope photographs

Series VI. Digitized slides and mounted negatives

Dance

Companies

New York City Ballet

Requiem Canticles (Balanchine)

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1968-05-02
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-VIM 2010-048
Topics
New York City Ballet
Balanchine, George. Requiem canticles
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Biographical/historical: Requiem Canticles is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky in memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, conducted by Robert Irving with Margaret Wilson, contralto, and John Ostendorf, bass. Costumes and candelabra were by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting by Ronald Bates, the corps de ballet in long white robes bearing a three-branched candelabra. A lone woman searches among them and at the end a figure in purple representing Martin Luther King, Jr., is raised aloft.
Original location: SW-NYCB-STAGE 20
Type of Resource
Still image
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19790133
MSS Unit ID: 22827
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b4fc49e0-c6ad-0137-eb38-399dc59da6c9
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Item timeline of events

  • 1968: Created
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1968. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b83421d0-c6ad-0137-3291-67da7098c8c5

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 31, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b83421d0-c6ad-0137-3291-67da7098c8c5

APA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. (1968). New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York) Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b83421d0-c6ad-0137-3291-67da7098c8c5

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New York City Ballet production of a requiem for Martin Luther King, Jr. (Performed only once with Arthur Mitchell, Suzanne Farrell and corps de ballet), choreography by George Balanchine (New York)