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Beethoven's   6TH   S Y M P H O N Y ...... Movement 3
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Choreographer:   Andrew Rist
Composer:  Ludwig Beethoven
Costumes:  Cheryl Rist
Sets:  Jim Arnold, Cythia Betz
Lighting:  Sam Baldwin
Photography:  Dave Trayers

BMN Company
      Julia Heggerness
      Erin Warn
      Jennifer Bennett`
      Kari Jensen
      Ben Olsen
      Riley Weber
      Bobby Johnson

Guests & CBA dancers
      Anna Betz
      Sara Ezzell
      Margaret Underwood
      Hannah Wagner
      Celesta Brainard
      Harper Skulley
      Andrew Rist(guest)
      Autumn Keller(guest)

Ballet Minnesota Premiere:
      Beethoven:
          6th Symphony
       5th Annual Fall Concert
       November 5, 2010
       St Paul Studnet Theater,
       University Of Minnesota
       St Paul, Minnesota

Musical Premiere:
     December 22, 1808
     Vienna, Austria




2010                                                                                                                                               5th Annual  FALL CONCERT

Beethoven's 6th SYMPHONY
Handel's MESSIAH (PIFA excerpt)

November 5-6, 2010
St Paul Student Center Theater, U. of MN,
St Paul, Minnesota

Choreographer:   Andrew Rist
Composer:  Ludwig Beethoven
Costumes:  Cheryl Rist
Sets:  Jim Arnold, Cythia Betz
Lighting:  Sam Baldwin
Photography:  Dave Trayers

BMN Company
      Julia Heggerness
      Erin Warn
      Jennifer Bennett`
      Kari Jensen
      Bobby Johnson
      Riley Webber

Guests & CBA dancers
      Anna Betz
      Sara Ezzell
      Margaret Underwood
      Hannah Wagner
      Celesta Brainard,
      Harper Skulley


Ballet Minnesota Premiere:
      Beethoven: 6th Symphony
         5th Annual Fall Concert
         Novemver 5, 2010
         St Paul Student Center              Theater, U of MN,
         St Paul, Minnesota

Musical Premiere:
     December 22, 1808,    
     Theater an der Wien,
     Vienna Austria

BEETHOVEN'S 6th SYMPHONY

     In a letter to Therese Malfatti in the summer of 1808, Beethoven said " How happy I am to be able to walk among the shrubs, the trees, the woods, the grass and the rocks! For the woods, the trees and the rocks give man the resonance he needs."


MVT 1: Awakening of cheerful feelings upon arriving in the country

MVT 2: Scene by the Brook .

MVT 3: Merry Gathering of Peasants.

MVT 4: Tempest, Storm.

MVT 5: Shepards' Hymn - Happy and Thankful Feeling After The Storm

choreographer:  
Andrew Rist
composer:  
Ludwig van Beethoven
costumes:  Cheryl Rist
sets:  
Cynthia Betz, Jim Arnold



Sampling of Ballets by
Andrew Rist

Costumes by Cheryl Rist
Photographed by Dave Trayers




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