- Title
- Filling Station
- Availability
- Available
- Category
- Ballet
- Instrumentation
- 2picc.2corA.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-harp.pft-str
- Duration
- 24'
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
- First Publisher
- American Music Edition
- Commission
- Commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for Ballet Caravan
- Premieres
- 1. World: Avery Memorial Theater, Hartford, CT, January 6th, 1938 (Ballet Caravan)
- 2. World: Work Projects Administration-Federal Music Theatre, New York City, February 18th, 1938 (Ballet Caravan)
- Edition/Catalog #
- Rental (Worldwide)
- Parts/Movements
- Introduction
- Mac's Dance (Pas Seul)
- Scene (Mac and Motorist)
- Acrobatics (Mac and Truck Drivers)
- Scene (State Trooper and Truck Drivers)
- Family Life (Motorist's Family and Truck Drivers)
- Tango (Rich Girl and Boy)
- Valse à trois (Rich Girl, Boy, Mac)
- Big Apple (Ensemble)
- Hold Up (Ensemble)
- Chase (Ensemble)
- Finale (Ensemble)
- Copyright
- ©1937 Boosey & Hawkes
- Year Composed
- 1937
- M.S. Location
- The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
- Cardell Number
- B1[A-D]
- Meckna Number
- W2
- Instrumentation Notes
- 2 picc.2 corA.2.2.-4.3.3.1.-timp.2[+]perc.-harp.pft.-str
or
2.2.2.2.-2.2.1.0.-timp.2 perc.-pft.-str - External Links
- Sales Link (at publisher)
- Related Persons
- Lew Christensen (Choreographer)
- Lincoln Kirstein (Scenario)
- Lincoln Kirstein (Commission)
- Related Works
Filling Station - Related Works
Filling Station, a ballet in twelve scenes
No. 6, "Family Life," of Filling Station is from the piano portrait of John Mosher (1935; Boosey & Hawkes; See W224)
"The John Mosher Waltzes" for orchestra (1937; Boosey & Hawkes; See W16) arranged from the piano portrait of John Mosher
Also arranged for piano, "Filling Station" (1937; Boosey & Hawkes; See W179)
Also arranged as orchestral suite, Suite from "Filling Station" (1937; Boosey & Hawkes; See W15)