Performance Database

Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Composer: Ernest Bloch
Set designer: Nadia Benois
Costume designer: Nadia Benois
World premiere: 7 Apr 1935, Ballet Club, Mercury Theatre, London
Production note: In the programme, Nadia Benois is credited as 'Costumes and Settings'.
Scene/role note: Four sections: Prelude, Dirge, Pastoral, Fugue
Music title: Concerto Grosso (1925)
Music details: Live music or recorded music: at the Mercury Theatre, a record was played on a gramophone; at other theatres, a string orchestra accompanied the ballet live.
Music note: The programme for the premiere states: 'Musical Installation for The Descent of Hebe by ''His Master's Voice''.'
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0078