Song of the Earth in rehearsal (The Royal Ballet)

Laura Morera, Nehemiah Kish and Edward Watson rehearse Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth with Monica Mason and Grant Coyle. Find out more at Kenneth MacMillan first heard Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in 1958. He immediately fell in love with Mahler’s elegiac masterpiece and in 1959 asked if he could use the piece in a new commission for The Royal Ballet. But the ROH Board refused, concerned that such a major musical work