Talk:Jewels (ballet)

Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky

How should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)

NY Times article by Alastair Macaulay, June 1, 2007

See also

• Official website Carnegie Hall

— Robert Greer (talk) 20:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the NY Times doesn't get to dictate to Wikipedia how it spells the names of composers.

Apart from that, it makes no sense to say that Jewels uses the music of Tschaikovsky, but Anna Karenina uses the music of Tchaikovsky, as if these were different people. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:59, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Companies on which Jewels has been set

It would be great to include in the article a list of ballet companies on which Jewels or any of the three separate ballets has been set, and by whom, and whether the ballet is an active part of their repertory. Is this information available in any citable sources? (sdsds - talk) 18:47, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

to do

Companies which have performed Jewels

• New York City Ballet in 1976; première on April 13, 1967
• Kirov Ballet, company première in 1999
• Cincinnati Ballet in 1996, the first company outside New York City Ballet to perform Jewels.
• BalletMet Columbus in 2003; company première on October 2, 2003
• Pacific Northwest Ballet in 2006; company première of all three acts together on June 1, 2006
• The Royal Ballet, company première of the full ballet on 23 November 2007 at the Royal Opera House, London. This production by the Royal Ballet was nominated for and winner of the Best New Dance Production and Outstanding Achievement in Dance categories at the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards.
• National Ballet of Canada on February 11, 2000, at the (then) Hummingbird Centre in Toronto.
• Miami City Ballet company première in 1994
• Paris Opera Ballet
• Pittsburgh Ballet Theater company première April 10, 1997
• Rubies alone: Pennsylvania Ballet (1983),
• San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet Premiere: March 12, 2002 — War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California
• Scottish Ballet Scottish Ballet Premiere: August 2005 as part of Scottish Ballet Dances Balanchine programme at the Edinburgh International Festival, and is due to be revived for Scottish Ballet's 40th Anniversary Season in October 2009.
• Boston Ballet company première in 2009

Emeralds, Rubies and Diamonds have been staged by Karin von Aroldingen, Sara Leland, Elyse Borne, Sean Lavery, Patricia Neary, Mimi Paul, Violette Verdy, Patricia McBride and Suzanne Farrell, among others.

References

columns

Please retain the column layout as it follows the program layout as nearly as possible which relects the partnering and importance of the roles. — Robert Greer (talk) 02:19, 7 April 2011 (UTC)