Revueltas, Silvestre

Originally composed 1935 for the film Redes, about the fishermen of Alvarado, near Veracruz, Mexico. Film also known as The Wave. First performance of this suite Barcelona, Spain, 7 October 1937 at a concert sponsored by the Committee Against War and Fascism. Performed as a ballet, Palacio des Bellas Artes, Mexico City, November 1951, Ballet Mexicano, book and choreography by Jose Limon. Limon renamed the ballet "El Grito" (The Scream) for its first New York performance at Juilliard Concert Hall, 5 December 1952, Jose Limon and Company. --Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1933, as music for a children's ballet with text by Vanegas Arroyo similar to the English folk rhyme "Froggy Went A-Courting." First performance Mexico City, 4 October 1940, Ballet de Bellas Artes, choreography by Anna Sokolow.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

First performance México City, 13 October, 1933, Orquesta da Cámara, the composer conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1933.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Originally composed 1939 for the film directed by C. Urueta.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1934. First performance Mexico City, 5 November 1934, by the Orquesta Sinfónica de México, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Intended as part of a larger work, never completed, suggested by the Spanish Civil War.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Janitzio (or Janicho) is a fishermen's island in Lake Pátzcuaro, central Mexico. First performance Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 13 October 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Composed 1931. First performance Mexico City, 4 November 1932, Orquesta Sinfoónica de México, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.

Ballet with book by Waldeen, Gabriel Ledesma and Seki Sano, inspired by José Guadalupe Posada's etchings of 19th-century Mexico. The plot concerns a heroine of the Mexican revolution of 1910, which overthrew the dictator Porfirio Diaz. Revueltas sketched the first three episodes in 1940. After his death Blas Galindo composed the fourth episode using themes by Revueltas. The entire ballet was orchestrated by Candelario Huizar. First performance with Huizar's orchestration, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 23 November 1940, Ballet de Bellas Artes, Eduardo Hernandez Moncada.

Conductor, choreography by Waldeen. First three episodes re-orchestrated by Hernandez Moncada and fourth episode composed and orchestrated by Jose Yves Limantour using Revueltas' themes from La Coronela and the films Vamonos con Pancho Villa and Los de Abajo, 1961.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.