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The Incredible Flutist
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The Incredible Flutist is a ballet composed by Walter Piston in 1938; it was given its premiere by the Boston Pops, under Hans Wiener, on May 30 of that year. The text of the ballet was written by Piston and Wiener. It describes a marketplace teeming with activity and enlivened by a circus. A flutist acts as a snake charmer, and also charms women. A rich widow flirts with a merchant, is discovered by her lover, faints, and is revived by the flutist's music. The circus then leaves the square.
Piston arranged music from the ballet into a suite for orchestra; this was premiered on November 22, 1940, by the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. The suite is in thirteen movements:
- Introduction
- Siesta Hour in the Marketplace and Entrance of the Vendors
- Dance of the Vendors
- Entrance of the Customers
- Tango of the Four Daughters
- Arrival of Circus and Circus March
- Solo of the Flutist
- Minuet - Dance of the Widow and Merchant
- Spanish Waltz
- Eight O'Clock Strikes
- Siciliano - Dance of the Flutist and the Merchant's Daughter
- Polka
- Finale
- David Ewen, Encyclopedia of Concert Music. New York; Hill and Wang, 1959.
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