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2 unusual facts about John Lanchbery


Albert Arlen

The show was turned into another ballet, with Arlen’s music freely arranged by John Lanchbery and choreography by Robert Ray, which the Australian Ballet staged in 1985 in Australia, and presented on their tour of the Soviet Union.

Federico Mompou

Kenneth MacMillan's ballet La Casa de los Pájaros (The House of Birds), set to orchestrations by John Lanchbery of various piano pieces by Mompou, was premiered at Sadler's Wells in London in 1955, and was also staged at the 4th Festival de Música y Danza at Granada.



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