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
Joffrey Ballet as chief choreographer. Arpino's 1970 rock ballet "Trinity" was well received; Joffrey revived Kurt Jooss's "The Green Table" in 1967, followed by revivals of Ashton's "Façade", Cranko's "Pineapple Poll", Fokine's "Petrushka" (with Rudolf Nureyev), Nijinsky's "Afternoon of a Faun", also with Nureyev, and Massine's "Le Tricorne", "Le Beau Danube" and "Parade". In 1973 Joffrey asked Twyla Tharp to create her first commissioned ballet, "Deuce Coupe". The company continued as City Center Joffrey Ballet until 1977. From 1977, it performed as the Joffrey Ballet, with a second home established in Los Angeles from (1982-1992). In 1995, the company left New York