Portsmouth Rolling Stones, and Fleetingwood Mac. Numerous musical works are set in the city. "Portsmouth Point" is an overture for orchestra by the English composer William Walton in 1925. The work was inspired by Thomas Rowlandson's etching depicting Portsmouth Point, otherwise known as "Spice Island" in Old Portsmouth. The overture was used for the BBC Proms Concert in 2007. "H.M.S. Pinafore" is a comic opera in two acts set in Portsmouth Harbour, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. John Cranko's 1951 ballet "Pineapple Poll", which features the operetta music of "The Bumboat Woman's Story" by Gilbert and
Sarasota Ballet mal Gardee", "Valses nobles et sentimentales" and "Jazz Calendar"; Dame Ninette de Valois' "Checkmate" and "The Rake's Progress"; John Cranko's "Pineapple Poll"; Christopher Wheeldon's "There Where She Loves" and "The American"; Michel Fokine's "Les Sylphides" and "Petrushka" and Rudolf Nureyev's "Raymonda Act III". Sarasota Ballet The Sarasota Ballet is an American ballet company based in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1990 by former principal ballerina and choreographer Jean Allenby-Weidner and is now acclaimed for its performances of Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets under its director Iain Webb. In 1987, Jean Weidner founded The Sarasota Ballet as a presenting organization, establishing