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Summer’s Lease
1983
Creative Team
Choreographer
Eliot Feld
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Running Time
42 min
Music
Composer
Composition
“Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt,” “Rheinlegendchen,” “Lob des hohen verstandes,” “Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen,” “Das irdische Leben,” “Der Tambourg’sell,” and “Revelge” from Des knaben Wunderhorn
“Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer” and “Die zwei ‘blauen Augen von meinem Schatz” from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Premiere
Date
April 16, 1983Location
Joyce Theater (New York, NY)Company
The Feld BalletPremiere Cast
Credits & Notes
The program contained the following poem by William Shakespeare:
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date…”
Summer’s Lease was made possible in part by The Rockefeller Foundation.