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Pocahontas, Suite from the Ballet

  • Year
    1939 (rev. 1961)
  • Duration
    20'
  • Category
    Orchestra
Instrumentation
3(III=picc).2.2.2-4.3.3.1-4timp.perc(4):xyl/tgl/cyms/susp.cym/tam-t/2 Indian drums/SD/TD/BD/sleigh bells/gourd rattle/tin rattle/slapstick-harp-pft-strings
Dedication
Lincoln Kirstein
Awards
Juilliard Publication Award, 1940
Buy Score
Associated Music Publishers
Manuscripts
  1. Paul Sacher Stiftung
  2. Library of Congress (Holograph score)
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While I was a student in Paris the choreographer George Balanchine had two weeks of Balanchine ballets in the Champs Élysée. A man I’d known in college, Lincoln Kirstein, was very much impressed by this and it was he that got George Balanchine to come over to the United States and start the New York City Ballet. In the early days, I was a musical advisor to that for a while. I was commissioned actually to write one ballet for them, which was done in 1939 on the subject of Pocahontas.

– Elliott Carter
Recordings (3)
  • American Masters: Elliott Carter
    CRI CD 610 (1991)
    American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel | Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano | Thomas Paul | Speculum Musicae | The Group for Contemporary Music
  • Elliott Carter: The Early Music
    CRI SD 475; ACS 6003 (1982)
    American Composers Orchestra, Paul Dunkel
  • Pocahontas (suite from the ballet); Piano Sonata
    Epic LC 3850 (mono); BC 1250 (stereo) (1962)
    Zürich Radio Orchestra | Jacques Monod, conductor | Charles Rosen, piano
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