Which composer wrote the music for the ballet ‘Mother Goose’ in 1910?
Mother Goose (ballet) Mother Goose (ballet) Mother Goose is a ballet made for New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival by balletmaster Jerome Robbins to Ravel's music and scenario, the "Ma Mère l'Oye Suite" from 1908, orchestrated by the composer in 1912. The premiere took place on May 22, 1975, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with costumes by Stanley Simmons and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. At its premiere it bore the French title, which was retained when it was first revived in January 1978 but Anglicized by May of that year. "Ma Mère l'Oye" was written as a suite of five
Mother Goose in Prose selection features a girl named Dorothy who can talk to animals — an anticipation of the Oz books. When Baum later included this story in his "Juvenile Speaker" (1910) and "The Snuggle Tales" (1916–17), he changed the girl's name to Doris, to avoid confusing her with Dorothy Gale. Though handsomely produced, "Mother Goose in Prose" was priced relatively expensively for a children's book; it was "only moderately successful" commercially. Publisher Way and Williams went bankrupt a year later. Baum took a different approach in a subsequent venture, composing original verses for his "" in 1899. New editions of "Mother Goose