NYCB Vol. 16 No. 11- Western Symphony

Suki Schorer. Photo by Martha Swope, 1964.

Nicholas Magallanes, Suki Schorer, Gloria Govrin, Frank Ohman 1964.

Photo by Erio Piccagliani at Teatro Alla Scala

Suki Schorer and Nicholas Magallanes. Photo by Martha Swope, 1968.

Western symphony was described by one reviewer as: "A delightful bundle of contradictions, a neoclassic ballet tinged with the folk spirit. The juxtaposition is an incongruity as typical as are the entrechats and tours en lair to cowboy tunes, or hints of all-hands-around mingled with the balletic port de bras. Fish-dives and fouettés are tossed off in a barn-dance milieu. The score, which has more quotations than Hamlet, is of course infectious, and to see the rhythms of square dance and round applied to, or subjected to, the courtly elegance of ballet is to the aesthetic sense something like what chocolate-coated pickles might be to the gustatory."

Begin at 8:52 to watch Suki Schorer dance the 2nd movement.

1965

1st Mov. Patricia Neary and Roland Vazquez.

2nd Mov. Suki Schorer and Richard Rapp.

3rd Mov. Gloria Govrin and Frank Ohman.

Originally posted by John Clifford on YouTube