Talk:Mozartiana (ballet)

Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky

How should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)

NY Times article by Alastair Macaulay, June 1, 2007

See also

• Official website Carnegie Hall

— Robert Greer (talk) 11:26, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

See my comments at Talk:Jewels (ballet)#Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky.

It's OK to refer to the Tschaikovsky Festival, because for better or worse that is the name it was given by its creators. Had they in their wisdom called it the Chykossky Festival, we would have to call it that here. But when referring to the composer himself, Wikipedia has decided he is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and that is the spelling we should use everywhere. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 21:31, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Order of movements and a 5th movement

Balanchine re-ordered the 4 movements of Tchaikovsky's original score [1]. He also added a 5th movement - Finale. What is the music to this Finale? I can find plenty of refs to its existence, but nothing so far that tells me exactly what music is played. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 21:42, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that George Balanchine’s Mozartiana is set to music by Tchaikovsky rather than Mozart? Source: [2], p. 314
  • ALT1: ... that George Balanchine only started working on his ballet Mozartiana three weeks before its premiere? Source: [3]
  • ALT2: ... that when George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Mozartiana, he changed the sequence of the music in order to let the lead ballerina appear in multiple sections? Source: [4], p. 293
  • ALT3: ... that ballerina Suzanne Farrell considered a section of the ballet Mozartiana "a hymn" between her and choreographer George Balanchine? Source: [5], p. 256
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alexandra Tegleva

5x expanded by Corachow (talk). Self-nominated at 15:37, 24 January 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Darwin Naz (talk) 00:27, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• Reviewing. Will get back in a bit. Darwin Naz (talk) 00:00, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
• Significantly expanded within 3 days of nomination. Copyvios possible violations were quotes and referenced accordingly. I suggest trimming or paraphrasing long quotes. I am partial to ALT1 since the original hook seems off considering the ballet is based on Mozartiana, which is Tchaikovsky's work. I do not see a strong connection with Mozart's music (except that it is a tribute to Mozart). If using Alt1, I suggest to include this minor wording change: "that George Balanchine ONLY started working on his ballet..." ALTs 2 & 3 are less interesting and source info should include page numbers given they are books/offline ref. Darwin Naz (talk) 00:27, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• I don't think I can trim the quotes anymore, but from past experience it should be fine. ALT0 is stem from the fact that "Mozart" is in the title but it's actually Tchaikovsky's music, which is not a well known score as far as I'm aware, but I'm fine with using ALT1 (now with the word "only"). The page numbers are now included here. Corachow (talk) 10:11, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

• Noted. Regards, Darwin Naz (talk) 02:40, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

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Promoting ALT1 to Prep 1 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:32, 28 January 2022 (UTC)