Tahiti Trot

Tahiti Trot
Tea for Two
Arrangement by Dmitri Shostakovich
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 [ru]

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 It subsequently was withdrawn, then considered a lost work until Gennady Rozhdestvensky reconstructed it in the early 1980s from orchestral parts presented to him by Malko's widow; it was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.