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Within the Quota (Ballet Suite) - 2 Pianos 4 Hands
Catalog: 00226304
Price: $15.29
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Description
Cole Porter's only attempt at a serious composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota, when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde. Both pieces were rapturously received by the Parisian press at the October 1923 premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Cole Porter later believed the score to be lost. In 1970 the score was discovered at Yale, from which William Bolcom and Richard Rodney Bennett created this two-piano version. The ballet is about an immigrant to New York who encounters a seductive heiress, a tap-dancer, a flapper, a cowboy, and a movie star beauty.
Table of Contents:
- 1. Opening
- 2. The Immigrant's Waltz
- 3. The Heiress
- 4. The Colored Gentleman
- 5. The Prohibition Officer
- 6. The Jazz Baby
- 7. The Cowboy
- 8. The Sweetheart of the World
- 9. Finale
| Publisher: | Marks Music |
| Composer/Author: | Porter, Cole |
| Arranger/Editor: | Bolcom/Bennett |
| Catalog Number: | 00226304 |
| Pages: | 40 |