SELECTED WORKS: with Type = 'Stage'
Stage
The Whirling Dwarf (1937)
John Weinzweig composed The Whirling Dwarf as a student at the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Howard Hanson. The piece premiered on a CBC radio broadcast entitled Canadian Snapshots, a weekly radio series which ran between 1939 and 1940.
Stage
Red Ear of Corn Ballet (1949)
Red Ear of Corn was one of the first large-scale ballet scores in Canada. Weinzweig combined Iroquois and French-Canadian folk music elements with his own serial compositional techniques.