ballet suite Souvenirs (1950) is titled 'Two-Step (Tea in the Palm Court)'. Originally for piano four hands, it was orchestrated in 1952. Barber wrote of the suite: "One might imagine a divertissement in a setting of the Palm Court of the Hotel Plaza in New York, the year about 1914, epoch of the first tangos." Lennox Berkeley's Palm Court Waltz, Op. 81 No 2 (1971) is an orchestral work written for an entertainment put on at the London Coliseum by Richard Buckle, and arranged for piano duet in 1971. See also Palm Court (Alexandria Hotel) - historic ballroom in Los Angeles, California Palm Court at the Ritz Hotel - site of "Tea at the Ritz" in London, England Light music References Hotel terminology