The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor (Russian: Медведь: Шутка в одном действии, romanized: Medved': Shutka v odnom deystvii, 1888), is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov. The play was originally dedicated to Nikolai Nikolaevich Solovtsov, Chekhov's boyhood friend and director/actor who first played the character Smirnov.

The First Shoot is a short ballet suite by William Walton. It was composed for Charles B. Cochran's 1936 revue Follow the Sun, to a scenario by Osbert Sitwell with choreography by Frederick Ashton, who danced the lead role. The ballet was a spoof of upper-class Edwardian country house parties. Walton later rearranged the score for brass band, a version subsequently orchestrated for full symphony orchestra by Christopher Palmer.

Troilus and Cressida is the first of the two operas by William Walton, and was premiered in 1954. The libretto was by Christopher Hassall, his own first opera libretto, based on Geoffrey Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde. Walton dedicated the score to his wife, Susana.