The Little Prince, by Matthew Pierce

The Little Prince

by Matthew Pierce

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1.	Overture: Well 02:53	buy track
2.	Traveling Music 02:50	buy track
3.	Snake Elephant 01:24	buy track
4.	Sheep Sick Ram Too Old Crate 02:57	buy track
5.	Balls 00:58	buy track
6.	Baobabs 01:57	buy track
7.	Rose 02:53	buy track
8.	Traveling Music A 00:32	buy track
9.	King 00:41	buy track
10.	Traveling Music B 00:32	buy track
11.	Vain Man 00:42	buy track
12.	Traveling Music C 00:32	buy track
13.	Drunkard 01:02	buy track
14.	Businessman 01:25	buy track
15.	Traveling Music D 00:34	buy track
16.	Lamplighter Ballet 01:39	buy track
17.	Geographer 01:38	buy track
18.	Snake 02:10	buy track
19.	Rose Wall 01:27	buy track
20.	Fox 03:51	buy track
21.	Well 02:53	buy track

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Little Prince, the Ballet

The composer Matthew Pierce on violin (accompanied by Marc Shapiro) performed his own music at the Saturday world premiere of the Diablo Ballet's production of Julia Adam's The Little Prince, in Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts.

This choreographic-musical partnership was previously in evidence at the San Francisco Ballet's much-praised Night, and Innocence and Experience at BalletMet, and in other Adam-Pierce works.

Somewhat minimalist (light on ostinato), jagged, and powerful, Pierce's music provided just the right underpinning to Adam's choreography for the intergalactic travels of the Little Prince (Edward Stegge), complete with the Pilot (Jekyns Pelaez), Elephant/Snake (Mayo Sugano), the Lamplighter (Mariko Takahashi), and the multitalented Erika Johnson - in three roles as the Sheep, Rose, and Fox, of this affecting tale in which "what is essential is invisible to the eye." (A tough chore for a ballet company.)

Given Diablo Ballet's limited resources, creators of the new ballet and the company kept ambitions in check, and provided a fine, entertaining hour, even silencing the audience of an estimated median age of 10. An expanded and more mature setting for the work promises a delight.

Janos Gereben on May 12, 2009

www.sfcv.org/articles/feature/music-news-may-12-2009#

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released May 8, 2009

The Little Prince

Music: Matthew Pierce
Choreography: Julia Adam
Costume Design: Christine Darch

World Premiere at the Lesher Center for the Arts
May 8, 2009 by Diablo Ballet
Lauren Jonas, Artistic Director

Restaging by Ballet Memphis 2011, 2015
Dorothy Gunther Pugh, Artistic Director

Violin: Matthew Pierce
Piano: Christine Doré

Cover Art: Christine Darch Costume Design

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Matthew Pierce East Northport, New York

Composer/Violinist Matthew Pierce is celebrated for his new classical scores commissioned by American ballet companies. Born in Brooklyn in 1968, Pierce grew up in Seattle, studied violin performance with Shirley Givens at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and moved to New York where he began writing music for the theater. Pierce has a special aptitude for dance. ... more

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