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My Son, My Enemy
Ballet for José Limón
year
1965
duration
30 minutes
instrumentation
String quartet, piano and percussion
text
The choreography and the music were inspired by a letter from Czar Peter the Great of Russia to his son Alexis: “If you obey me, I assure you and I promise, in the name of God, that I will not punish you, and if you return I will love you more than ever. But if you do not, I give you as your father my eternal curse; and as your sovereign, I assure you that I shall find the means of punishing you.”
commission
Connecticut College with a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation
première
August 13-15, 18th American Dance Festival, New London, Connecticut. José Limón and Company
movements
- Visions
- Fantasies
- Judgement
- Vengeance