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Antique Epigraphs | |||
| Composer | Claude Debussy | ||
| Music | Six Epigraphes Antiques (1897), orchestrated by Ernest Ansermet (1932); Syrinx, for solo flute | ||
| Dancers | Kyra Nichols, Stephanie Saland, Maria Calegari, Simone Schumacher, Helene Alexopoulos, Jerri Kumery, Victoria Hall, Florence Fitzgerald | ||
| Costumes | Florence Klotz | ||
| Lighting | Jennifer Tipton | ||
| Genre | BALLET | ||
| Premiere | February 2, 1984, New York State Theater, New York City Ballet | ||
| Casting Reqs | 8 Dancers: 4 principal women, 4 corps women | ||
| Requirements | orchestra | ||
| Running Time | 20′ | ||
| Notes | In 1897 Debussy set to music some newly discovered ancient Greek Sapphic poems called Songs of Bilitis. The poems were published as translations by Pierre Louys, who subsequently admitted writing them himself. Debussy returned to the music material years later and reshaped some of them into piano pieces for four hands called Six Epigraphes Antiques. He wanted to orchestrate them and it was done by Ernest Ansermet in 1932. Syrinx for solo flute completes the score for the ballet. Like the Epigraphes and Afternoon of a Faun, Syrinx was inspired by French poetry about life and myths of Greek antiquity. | ||