High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ragtime (I) is the second of three ballets made by New York City Ballet`s co-founder and balletmaster George Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky`s 1918 Ragtime for Eleven Instruments; with scenery by Robert Drew previously used for Lew Christensen`s 1947 work for Ballet Society, Blackface; costumes by Karinska and lighting by David Hays. The premiere took place on December 7, 1960, at City Center of Music and Drama, conducted by Robert Irving, as part of a quartet of works titled Jazz Concert, together with dances by Todd Bolender`s Creation of the World, Francisco Moncion`s Les Biches and John Taras` Ebony Concerto. Balanchine`s 1966 Ragtime (II) was also made for City Ballet; his previous ballet to Stravinsky`s Ragtime was one of a number of "informal little things" made in St. Petersburg in 1922.