"Songs My Mother Taught Me" is the title of a song for voice and piano, written by
Charles Ives (S. 361, K. 6B21c) in 1895 and set to a poem by
Adolf Heyduk.
Ives' song was written some fifteen years after
Dvořák's setting of the same poem.
New York City Ballet
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company' ...
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Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins (born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz; October 11, 1918 – July 29, 1998) was an American dancer, choreographer, film director, theatre director and producer who worked in classical ballet, on stage, film, and television.
Among his nu ...
used it for one of the dances he made in ''
Ives, Songs
''Ives, Songs'' is a ballet made by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to songs of Charles Ives:
* "The Children's Hour"
* "Memories, Part A: Very Pleasant"
* "Waltz"
* "The Cage"
* "The See'r"
* "Two Little Flowers"
* "At the Riv ...
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Songs about music
Songs about mothers
1895 songs
Compositions by Charles Ives
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