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Designs With Strings

Choreography by John Taras
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (Piano Trio in A Minor, 2nd movement)
Arranged for Strings by Joseph Levine
Scenery and Costumes by Irene Sharaff
Lighting by Nananne Porcher

World Premiere

Metropolitan Ballet
February 6, 1948
Edinburgh, Scotland

Cast:
Svetlana Beriosova
Sonia Arova
Celia Franca
Delysia Blake
Paul Gnatt David Adams

ABT Premiere

April 25, 1950
The Center Theater
New York, New York

Cast:
Diana Adams
Norma Vance
Lillian Lanese
Dorothy Scott
Erik Bruhn
Michael Lland