Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Song of the Earth for the Stuttgart Ballet which premiered on 7.11.1965 in Stuttgart. The material in this file comprises

1. Two photocopied pages giving the cast and understudies for the revival by The Royal Ballet in the 1983/84 season
2. Four photocopied pages of page proofs for the Royal Opera House programme, 24.2.1984, with programme notes and cast
3. Two photocopied pages, as item 1, with handwritten notes by Kenneth MacMillan for the cast for a later revival by The Royal Ballet, with a sheet of lined paper with some numbers and three names handwritten by Kenneth MacMillan
4. Four pages torn from a programme, possibly for the first performance by Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1997, with programme notes and photographs of performances by the Stuttgart Ballet and The Royal Ballet

Photographs of Houston Ballet in Song of the Earth and colour photograph of Kenneth MacMillan [and Li Cunxin] standing in from of a Houston Ballet banner

Photographs of The Paris Opera Ballet in Metaboles, The Four Seasons and Song of the Earth, and one photograph of Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing dancers

Photographs of the 1990 revival of Song of the Earth

One photograph of Marcia Haydee, Richard Cragun and Egon Madsen in Song of the Earth

One colour photograph of Song of the Earth, one framed colour photograph of Solitaire [possibly the Hong Kong Ballet] in presentation box with Mikimoto International in gold letter on lid, one colour photograph of the cast of Anastasia on stage, one black and white photocopy of a photograph of Lynn Seymour and Frank Frey in Swan Lake with the Deutsche Oper Ballet, 1969, one black and white photograph possibly of Belinda Hatley and the Royal Ballet School in The Four Seasons on tour in Russia, and one black and white production photograph taken in Germany

This file includes correspondence between Kenneth and Deborah MacMillan and Anne Woolliams, Peggy van Praagh and Robert Helpmann, impresarios Lilian and Victor Hochauser and Sol Hurok and the MacMillans' agent, concerning requests by The Australian Ballet to perform some of Kenneth MacMillan's ballets. There is a photocopy of the manuscript draft of an article by Margaret Dale about Kenneth MacMillan rehearsing two dancers from The Australian in the pas de deux from Concerto to be performed in Manila.

The material in this file mostly relates to arrangements for the first performance of Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth by The Australian Ballet in April 1987. It includes correspondence from Maina Gielgud and David Palmer, a draft agreement for Song of the Earth, a letter with fabric swatches for costumes, photographs of dancers not in MacMillan roles, a ground plan for the Sydney Opera House Opera Theatre, a souvenir programme including Song of the Earth with cast lists, and an issue of The Australian Ballet Newsletter

Kenneth MacMillan became Artistic Associate of Houston Ballet in August 1989, the Company having previously performed Song of the Earth in 1987. They performed Gloria in 1989, Elite Syncopations in 1990 and Solitaire in 1991. The correspondence in this file is largely concerned with agreements and arrangements for these ballets and for MacMillan's role as Artistic Associate. It includes a letter of agreement for Manon which was ultimately not performed until 1993, the year after MacMillan's death. It also includes handwritten cast lists for Song of the Earth and Elite Syncopations

This folder contains press cuttings about Manon, Song of the Earth, and sponsorship. The large cutting on sponsorship includes a photograph of Deborah MacMillan