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New England Ballet Theatre
presents
The Long Black Veil
Inspired by the country music ballad
October 19th
7:00pm
Hoffman Auditorium at
University of Saint Joseph
1678 Asylum Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Parking Information:
When attending the performance please enter the campus through the West Entrance and park in Lot J.
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Join NEBT for A WORLD PREMIERE!
This original full-length story ballet choreographed by Artistic & Executive Director Rachael Gnatowski will be performed by the Company Artists of NEBT and guest artists.
"The Long Black Veil" will be a dark but family-friendly homage to all things Americana, set in the late 1800s in a rural Appalachian town.
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About The Song
"Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.
It is told from the point of view of a man falsely accused of murder and executed. He refuses to provide an alibi, since on the night of the murder he was having an extramarital affair with his best friend's wife, and would rather die and take their secret to his grave than admit the truth. The chorus describes the woman's mourning visits to his gravesite, wearing a long black veil and enduring a wailing wind.
In 2019, Frizzell's version of "Long Black Veil" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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