Fanfare for a New Theatre

Composition and premiere#

This composition was written for the opening ceremony of the New York State Theater, as a part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. “Lincoln” being the company’s administrator, Lincoln Kirstein, and “George” fellow entrepreneur and choreographer George Balanchine. Theodore Weis and Ronald K. Anderson were the performers.

Analysis#

The fanfare takes approximately 40 seconds to perform and is one of Stravinsky’s major miniatures.

Further reading#

• Leach, James D. March 2019. “An Accidental Discovery: Stravinsky’s Fanfare for a New Theatre”. International Trumpet Guild Journal 43, no. 3: 12–15.
• O’Laughlin, Niall. November 1968. “Modern Brass”. The Musical Times 109, no. 1509: 1050
• Smyth, David. Summer 1999. “Stravinsky’s Second Crisis: Reading the Early Serial Sketches”. Perspectives of New Music 37, no. 2: 117–46.
• Straus, Joseph N. 2001. Stravinsky’s Late Music. Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. .
• White, Eric Walter. 1979. Stravinsky: The Composer and His Works, second edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press. .

External links#

• • Work details, Boosey & Hawkes