List of Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet casts

This is a list of casts to New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine's Brahms — Schoenberg Quartet, made to Arnold Schoenberg's 1937 orchestration of Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 (1861).

Original

  • First movement
Allegro
  • Melissa Hayden
  • Gloria Govrin
  • André Prokovsky
8 women
4 men
  • Second movement
Intermezzo
  • Patricia McBride
3 women
  • Conrad Ludlow
  • Third movement
Andante
  • Allegra Kent
  • Edward Villella
3 female demi-soloists
12 women
  • Fourth movement
Rondo alla Zingarese
  • Suzanne Farrell
8 women
  • Jacques d'Amboise
8 men

NYCB revivals

2008 Spring

first cast

  • First movement
  • Abi Stafford
  • Savannah Lowery
  • Philip Neal
  • Second movement
  • Janie Taylor
  • Jared Angle
  • Third movement
  • Yvonne Borree
  • Benjamin Millepied
  • Fourth movement
  • Wendy Whelan
  • Charles Askegard

second cast

  • First movement
  • Rachel Rutherford
  • Ellen Bar
  • Philip Neal
  • Second movement
  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Stephen Hanna
  • Third movement
  • Megan Fairchild
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Fourth movement
  • Sara Mearns
  • Amar Ramasar

2008 Summer Saratoga Springs

first cast

  • First movement
  • Abi Stafford
  • Ellen Bar
  • Jonathan Stafford
  • Second movement
  • Tiler Peck
  • Robert Fairchild
  • Third movement
  • Yvonne Borree
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Fourth movement
  • Sara Mearns
  • Charles Askegard

second cast

  • First movement
  • Abi Stafford
  • Ellen Bar
  • Jonathan Stafford
  • Second movement
  • Tiler Peck
  • Robert Fairchild
  • Third movement
  • Yvonne Borree
  • Benjamin Millepied
  • Fourth movement
  • Teresa Reichlen
  • Charles Askegard

2009 Winter

  • First movement
  • Abi Stafford
  • Savannah Lowery
  • Philip Neal
  • Second movement
  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Robert Fairchild
  • Third movement
  • Yvonne Borree
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Fourth movement
  • Teresa Reichlen
  • Charles Askegard

2009 Winter tour

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC

  • First movement
  • Ashley Bouder
  • Ellen Bar
  • Philip Neal
  • Second movement
  • Sterling Hyltin
  • Jared Angle
  • Third movement
  • Yvonne Borree
  • Andrew Veyette
  • Fourth movement
  • Sara Mearns
  • Charles Askegard

References

  • Playbill, New York City Ballet, Thursday, June 19, 2008
  • Repertory Week, New York City Ballet, Spring Season, 2008 repertory, week 8

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