PROGRAM

Sweet Fields (1996)
Choreography by Twyla Tharp
Staged by Stacy Caddell
Music: Hymns from William Billings, the Shaker tradition, and The Sacred Harp
Original Costume Design by Norma Kamali
Lighting originally by Jennifer Tipton
Symphonic Choir | Susan Swaney, Conductor

I. William Billings: Thomas-Town (Great God how frail…)
Vincent Brewer, Daniel Morales, Elliot O’Glasser, Tom Penman, Benjamin Warner

II. William Billings: Chester
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Juliann Hyde, Demetria Schioldager,
Jennifer Sherry, Lacy Simpson

III. William Billings: Chesterfield
Vincent Brewer, Daniel Morales, Elliot O’Glasser, Tom Penman,
Pablo Sanchez, Benjamin Warner

IV. Traditional Shaker: Come Life, Shaker Life
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Juliann Hyde,
Demetria Schioldager, Lacy Simpson

V. Traditional Shaker: Virgins clothed in a clean white garment…
Vincent Brewer, Daniel Morales, Tom Penman, Pablo Sanchez, Benjamin Warner

VI. William Walker: Sweet Prospect
Kjersti Cubberley, Demetria Schioldager, Benjamin Warner

VII. William Billings: Jordan
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Juliann Hyde, Demetria Schioldager,
Jennifer Sherry, Lacy Simpson
Vincent Brewer, Daniel Morales, Elliot O’Glasser, Tom Penman, Benjamin Warner

VIII. Abraham Woods: Brevity
Ben Delony

IX. Jeremiah Ingalls: New Jerusalem
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Juliann Hyde,
Demetria Schioldager, Lacy Simpson
Ben Delony, Daniel Morales, Tom Penman, Pablo Sanchez, Benjamin Warner

X. Jeremiah Ingalls: Northfield
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Juliann Hyde, Demetria Schioldager, Lacy Simpson
Ben Delony, Daniel Morales, Elliot O’Glasser, Tom Penman,Pablo Sanchez, Benjamin Warner

Sweet Fields, set to 18th- and 19th-century hymns, was made for an ensemble of Tharp’s own dancers. Inspired by Pythagorean geometry and its related harmony and restraint, simple and distinct patterns keep recurring throughout the piece, as basic geometric material evolves while one theme grows out of another. The geometric floor patterns and designs remain clear and crisply defined as canonic, counterpoint, and three-part counterpointed moves animate geometry. The shaking of the women’s hands responds directly to “Shaker” community articulations associated with the specific “Shaker Hymns” included in the musical mix. As the piece paces, pictures and gestures work toward a similarly sophisticated simplicity. The pervasive discipline and playful rigors of the choreography, could not, in Tharp’s own words, have been possible without her own Quaker origins.

Endless Night
(world premiere)

New Choreography by Michael Vernon
Doricha Sales, Ballet Mistress
Music by Philip Glass (born 1937)

String Quartet No. 2, “Company”
Metamorphosis IV
String Quartet No. 4, “Buczak,” 3rd Movement

Kuttner Quartet:

Peter Vickery, Violin
Thomas Rogers, Violin
Kaitlyn Flowers, Viola
Ian Jones, Cello

Florence Couvrette-Dupuis, Piano

Metamorphosis Four , String Quartet No. 2 (Company). and String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak)
© 1988, 1983, 1989 Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc. Used by permission.

I.
Caitlin Kirschenbaum & Daniel Morales
Kimberly Williams & Tom Penman

II.
Ivy Chow ...................Katie Wood

Kimberly Williams & Tom Penman

III.
Lacy Simpson

Oct. 10: Ellen Barlow, Jasmine Brown, Sarah Crock, Elizabeth Fittro,
Elisabeth Martin, Rachael Vrbancic
Oct. 11: Paige Adams, Brette Benedict, Alyssa Lynch,
Elisabeth Martin, Jordan Martin, Alex Shipley

IV.
Samantha Benoit, Kjersti Cubberley, Jennifer Sherry

V.
Daniel Ulbricht*
with
Anja Hoover

VI.
Colleen Anthonisen .................. Maximillian Tortoriello
Entire Cast

*Appears courtesy of the New York City Ballet.

Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.

Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

From Auguries of Innocence
— William Blake (1757- 1827)

The Four Temperaments (1946)

Choreography by George Balanchine
Staged by Sandra Jennings
Dan Duell & Guoping Wang, Ballet Masters
University Orchestra | Andres Moran, Conductor
Susan Chou, Piano
Music by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): The Four Temperaments: Theme with Four Variations

First Theme
Oct. 10: Caitlin Kirschenbaum & Benjamin Warner
Oct. 11: Demetria Schioldager & Pablo Sanchez

Second Theme
Oct. 10: Lacy Simpson & Elliot O’Glasser
Oct. 11: Colleen Anthonisen &Tom Penman

Third Theme
Oct. 10: Jennifer Sherry &Tom Penman
Oct. 11: Samantha Benoit & Ben Delony

Melancholic
Oct. 10: Ben Delony
Oct. 11: Vincent Brewer

Carly Baum (10/10)/Elizabeth Rodbell (10/11), Kjersti Cubberley

Ellen Barlow, Ivy Chow, Alex Shipley, Jasmine Brown

Sanguinic
Grace Reeves & Paul Dandridge

Danielle Dyson, Annie Duffey, Juliann Hyde,
Caitlin Kirschenbaum (10/11)/Demetria Schioldager (10/10)

Phlegmatic
Oct. 10: Pablo Sanchez
Oct. 11: Benjamin Warner

Marielle Bingham, Sarah Crock, Anja Hoover (10/11)/
Elizabeth Rodbell (10/10), Alison Trumbull

Choleric
Megan Liberty

The Four Temperaments is one of George Balanchine’s earliest experimental works, fusing classical steps with a lean and angular style. The ballet is inspired by the medieval belief that human beings are made up of four different humors that determine a person’s temperament. Each temperament was associated with one of the four classical elements: earth, air, water, and fire. In turn, these were the basis of the four humors: black bile (melancholic—gloomily pensive), blood (sanguinic—headstrong and passionate), phlegm (phlegmatic—unemotional and passive), and bile (choleric—bad-tempered and angry). These make up the ballet’s four movements.

The performance of The Four Temperaments, a Balanchine® Ballet, is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust.

Paul Hindemith Theme with Four Variations (according to the Four Temperaments).
Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors L.L.C., sole U.S.
and Canadian agent for Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG. Germany,
publisher and copyright owner.