Within the Quota (Ballet Suite) [HL:226304]

Within the Quota (Ballet Suite) [HL:226304]

Edward B. Marks Music Company

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UPC:
888680674359
EAN:
9781495091421
ISBN:
1495091422
Minimum Order Quantity:
1
Pages:
40
UPC:
888680674359
Format:
Softcover
Subtitle:
NFMC 2020-2024 Selection for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands Transcribed by Bolcom and Bennett. E.B. Marks
Original Currency:
USD
Vendor:
Hal Leonard
Cole Porter's only attempt at a “serious” composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces were rapturously received by the Parisian press at the October 1923 premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Cole Porter later believed the score to be lost. In 1970 the score was discovered at Yale, from which William Bolcom and Richard Rodney Bennett created this two-piano version. The ballet is about an immigrant to New York who encounters a seductive heiress, a tap-dancer, a flapper, a cowboy, and a movie star beauty. Two copies needed for performance.