ballet suite

American  

noun

1. music written for a ballet but suitable or arranged for performance in an orchestral concert.

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Etymology

Origin of ballet suite

Probably earlier than 1960–65

Example Sentences

Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has written a piano concerto and a ballet suite, Sebastian, is currently working on a violin concerto.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets.

From Time Magazine Archive

The late Pierre Monteux was 88 when he recorded this Mother Goose ballet suite with the London Symphony Orchestra, creating crystalline tableaux of sleeping princesses and lost children.

From Time Magazine Archive

His third ballet suite, which is the best, was produced at a concert of the American Symphony Orchestra, under Sam Franko.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert