''Requiem Canticles'' is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Requiem Canticles, eponymous music from 1966 by Igor Stravinsky ''in memoriam'' Martin Luther King, Jr.
NY Times review, ''Balanchine Presents His New Ballet as Tribute to Dr. King'', May 3, 1968
/ref> It received a single performance on May 2, 1968, at the David H. Koch Theater, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, conducted by Robert Irving (conductor), Robert Irving with Margaret Wilson (contralto), Margaret Wilson, contralto, and John Ostendorf, bass. Costumes and candelabra were by Rouben Ter-Arutunian and lighting by Ronald Bates, the corps de ballet in long white robes bearing a three-branched candelabra. A lone woman searches among them and at the end a figure in purple representing Martin Luther King, Jr., is raised aloft.
Original cast
*Suzanne Farrell
:''corps de ballet''
*Arthur Mitchell (dancer), Arthur Mitchell
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{{Balanchine ballets
New York City Ballet repertory
Ballets by George Balanchine
Ballets to the music of Igor Stravinsky
Ballets designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian
Ballets designed by Ronald Bates
1968 ballet premieres