https://www.newstatesman.com/joni-mitchell-interview-2020-daniel-levitin?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB

DL I love the story of how you came to write your ballet, The Fiddle and The Drum.

JM (Laughs.) Well, you know, I loved Prince’s music, and he came up to me at the Grammys and said, “You really should write some dance music.” He didn’t say what kind of dance, so I wrote a ballet.

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Love this.

The song provided the title for the 2007 ballet The Fiddle and the Drum which Mitchell authored with Jean Grand-Maître, the artistic director of the Alberta Ballet Company. The ballet was filmed for an hour-long 2007 film with the same title.