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- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine.
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Music. Lew Stone conducted the BBC Dance Orchestra in a 1936 BBC broadcast performance of Rodgers' score which was the work's radio premiere. Theatre organist George Wright recorded the composition for his second album for HiFiRecords, George Wright Encores.
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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. Music by Richard Rodgers. Arranged by Herschel Burke Gilbert. [Played over title card and opening credits, and leading into the End card and end credits; musical riffs from the piece are heard throughout the movie]
The plot line of the movie has no relation to the play, but the composition by Rodgers is indeed heard in the film, in an adaptation by Herschel Burke Gilbert (under the direction of music supervisor Joseph Gershenson) that was praised as "magnificent". [2] Plot.
It made a star of Ray Bolger and put up an initial run of 315 performances. More important, it brought ballet into the American musical. None less than George Balanchine choreographed two sequences, the most famous of which is the finale, "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." Here the dance element is a completely integrated part of the narrative.
Slaughter on 10th Avenue: Directed by Arnold Laven. With Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams. A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.
Rodgers composed the music, Hart the words. Their 1936 On Your Toes musically depicts the story of a professor who coerces a Russian ballet impresario to stage a jazz ballet titled Slaughter on 10th Avenue.
