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I love the music for "Dance of the The Knights" from Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_a...iet_(Prokofiev). I first heard the song in some car commercial and didn't realize until recently that it is part of a ballet:

Prokofiev - "Dance of the Knights" (or Montagues and Capulets) from his ballet, Romeo and Juliet
I like the music's somber, destructive power contrasting with the delicate, romantic, hopeful interludes. An especially nice moment in the ballet (shown below) is when Romeo and Juliet come face to face (at 5:20) and the somber, martial theme re-emerges, foreshadowing the devastation that is to come in their lives:



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Il Duce in another thread asked about Bartok's music for his ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin The Miraculous Mandarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This made me curious about it (especially after seeing a link that most definitely was *not* the download of the music ) and so I found the following video showing excerpts of the ballet:

Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)
The dancing is pleasantly contemporary and fresh, and the music chaotic and intense, matching the far-fetched plot: three tramps force a girl to dance to lure men close enough so that the tramps can steal from them, which leads to the tramps violently murdering the final gentleman, a wealthy Chinese man, who longs for the girl and eventually dies in her arms. :/

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