Filling Station (ballet) | Music by Virgil Thomson and choreography by Lew Christensen

Filling Station (1937; Boosey & Hawkes; 24 min.)
Ballet in twelve scenes
2.2.2.2./4.3.3.1 (or 2.2.3.0)/timp./2 perc./harp/pf./strings
Choreography by Lew Christensen
Also arranged for pf. (1937; Boosey & Hawkes)
Also arranged as an orchestral suite (1937; Boosey & Hawkes).
Scenario by Lincoln Kirstein
Commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for Ballet Caravan
1. Introduction
2. Mac's Dance (Pas seul)
3. Scene (Mac and Motorist)
4. Acrobatics (Mac and Truck Drivers)
5. Scene (State Trooper and Truck Drivers)
6. Family Life (Motorist's Family and Truck Drivers)
7. Tango (Rich Girl and Boy)
8. Valse à trois (Rich Girl, Boy, Mac)
9. Big Apple (Ensemble)
10. Hold Up (Ensemble)
11. Chase (Ensemble)
12. Finale (Ensemble)
Premières with p.f.: January 6, 1938; Hartford CT; Avery Memorial Theater; Ballet Caravan. With orchestra: February 18, 1938; New York City; Work Projects Administration-Federal Music Theatre; Ballet Caravan; The Greenwich Orchestra.
See Meckna, Michael. Virgil Thomson: A Bio-Bibliography. Bio-Bibliographies in Music, Number 4. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.