| Tahiti Trot | |
|---|---|
| Tea for Two | |
| Arrangement by Dmitri Shostakovich | |
.jpg) Dmitri Shostakovich in 1925 | |
| Opus | 16 |
| Commissioned by | Nicolai Malko |
| Based on | "Tea for Two" by Vincent Youmans |
| Composed | circa October 1927 |
| Dedication | To dear Nicolai Andreyevich Malko as a token of my best feelings |
| Publisher | Muzika, Hans Sikorski Musikverlage |
| Duration | 4 minutes |
| Scoring | symphony orchestra |
| Premiere | |
| Date | November 25, 1928 |
| Location | Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Conductor | Nicolai Malko |
| Performers | SovFil Orchestra |
Tahiti Trot (Russian: Таити трот, romanized: Taiti trot) (or Tea for Two),[1] Op. 16, is an arrangement for symphony orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich of the song "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans. It was composed in 1927 and resulted from a bet between the composer and the score's dedicatee, Nicolai Malko.
Tahiti Trot was premiered on November 25, 1928, and quickly became popular in the Soviet Union. Changing cultural politics that resulted from the Great Break and the end of NEP led to Shostakovich renouncing the work. It subsequently was withdrawn, then considered a lost work until Gennady Rozhdestvensky reconstructed it in the early 1980s from orchestral parts presented to him by Malko's widow; it was first published in 1984.
- ^ McBurney, Gerard (March 2023). "Shostakovich: Work List" (PDF). London: Boosey & Hawkes. p. 43. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 24, 2023. Retrieved April 25, 2023.