Elite Syncopations

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan
Composer: Scott Joplin
Music title: Sunflower Slow Drag; Elite Syncopations; The Cascades; Stop-time Rag; Bethena – a Concert Waltz (orchestral versions)
Composer: Paul Pratt
Music title: Hot-house Rag (piano)
Composer: James Scott
Music title: Calliope Rag (piano)
Composer: Joseph Francis Lamb
Music title: Ragtime Nightingale (orchestra); The Alaskan Rag (piano)
Composer: Max Morath
Music title: The Golden Hours (piano)
Composer: Donald Ashwander
Music title: Friday Night (orchestra)
Composer: Robert Hampton
Music title: Cataract Rag (orchestra)
Arranger: Lisle D S
Music title: Sunflower Slow Drag
Arranger: George Sponhaltz
Music title: Elite Syncopations; Stop-time Rag
Arranger: Stark E J
Music title: The Cascades
Arranger: Robert Docker
Music title: Ragtime Nightingale; Bethena; Friday Night; Cataract Rag
Work definition: Ballet in one act
World premiere: 7 October 1974, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
ROH premiere: 7 October 1974, The Royal Ballet
ROH company premiere: 7 October 1974, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Productions
Elite Syncopations (1974) The Royal Ballet (65 performances online)
Elite Syncopations (1978) Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (7 performances online)