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Choreographer: Christopher Bruce

Composer: George Crumb

Text by: Federico Garcia Lorca

Set designer: Pamela Marre

Costume designer: Pamela Marre

Lighting designer: John B. Read

World premiere: 11 Jul 1979, Ballet Rambert, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London

Production note: In the programme, Pamela Marre is credited as 'design'.

Music title: Night of the Four Moons (1969)

Music details: Live music: voice (alto), alto flute, piccolo, banjo, electric cello, percussion

Music note: Crumb's 'Night of the Four Moons' is based on text fragments by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Sponsors: Ballet Rambert is deeply grateful to the Rt. Hon Lord Baron George Strauss and Lady Patricia Strauss for commissioning this work.

Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive

Archive catalogue: WORK/0293

Date	Programme	Venue
11 Jul 1979 Evening	Echoi \| Changes \| Night with Waning Moon^* \| The Parades Gone By	Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
12 Oct 1979 Evening	Night with Waning Moon \| Celebration \| Sidewalk^*	New Theatre, Oxford
11 Jul 1980 Evening	Night with Waning Moon \| Landscape^* \| Smiling Immortal	Theatre Royal, Bristol
8 May 1987 Evening	Carmen Arcadiae \| Dutiful Ducks \| Rushes^* \| Night with Waning Moon	Opera Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

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