Pocahontas

Instrumentation
3.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-4timp.perc-harp-pft-strings
Dedication
Lincoln Kirstein
Notes

The ballet with an unpublished piano version of the score was performed on 8/17/1936 at Keene State College, Keene, NH. Coreography was by Lew Christensen; the cast was: Ruthanna Boris, Charles Laskey, Harold Christensen, and Erick Hawkins.

Buy Score
Associated Music Publishers
Manuscripts
  1. Paul Sacher Stiftung
  2. Library of Congress (Holograph score)
Premiere
May 24, 1939/ Ballet Caravan, Fritz Kitzinger (cond), Karl Free (scenery and costumes), Leda Anchutina, Erick Hawkins, Eugene Loring, and Harold Christensen (cast)/ American Lyric Theatre, Martin Beck Theater, New York, NY
News

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