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Jerome Moross Frankie & Johnny Ballet

This video includes an Interview with Ruth Page and the 1978 performance of the ballet. FRANKIE AND JOHNNY was originally composed on commission from Ruth Page, and then presented by her in collaboration with the Chicago Federal Theater. It was completed in March, 1938 and first produced at the Great Northern Theater in Chicago, June 20, 1938. It is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 Bb clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, timpani, percussion and strings. Scheduled to run for a few nights only, the work created a sensation and ran for six weeks through traditionally unremunerative July. In 1945 the Ballet Ruse de Monte Carlo bought the ballet, and for a number of seasons FRANKIE AND JOHNNY was an established work in their repertoire. Alleged “extremes” in the choreography created a problem with censors in certain communities, and eventually the pressure won out: the work was dropped. It was resuscitated, however, in Paris in May 1950. There it was the subject of a typical French artistic scandal. The adherents of Serge Lifar used the performance to demonstrate their anger at the treatment he had received in America, and the next morning the New York Herald-Tribune and other New York papers were delighted to report that at last an American work had received the “chair-throwing” treatment that had been reserved until then for such revolutionary works as Le Sacre du Printemps and L’Apres-midi d’un Faune. After the premiere, counter-demonstrations began. The famous artist Le Corbusier wrote a panegyric for the press, and the ballet was performed 20 times in the month. Formally, FRANKIE AND JOHNNY consists of an introduction and a suite of seven dances described by the composer as follows: 1. STOMP (The doings around town) 2. BLUES (A duet between Frankie and Johnny) 3. RAG I (The Barroom scene; Johnny goes off with Nellie Bly; Frankie comes looking for him; the local denizens help. Nellie and Johnny get away) 4. RAG II (The bartender’s dance. The bartender tells Frankie what’s what, in the meantime offering himself as a substitute) 5. TUNE (Frankie whips herself into a frenzy and goes off to get her gun) 6. FOX-TROT (Frankie catches Johnny with Nellie Bly and shoots Johnny) 7. ONE-STEP (The funeral. Everybody gets roaring drunk and Frankie and Nellie end up crying on one another’s shoulders) Throughout the piece, a trio of Salvation Army lasses wanders through the scenes beating cymbal, tambourine and bass-drum, and commenting on the action. At the end, they get three glasses of beer and sing the final lyrics with their feet on the coffin, as if it were a bar-rail. This story ain’t got no moral, Oh, this story ain’t got no end, Oh, this story just goes to show you That you can’t put no trust in any man. The whole is an astoundingly virtuosic orchestral setting of the familiar American folk tune.