Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to express my sincerest appreciation, and the appreciation of the entire New York City Ballet Company, for the magnificent TIME cover story [Jan. 25] . . . We are all very pleased...
...Your lovely color photos of the ballerinas (especially Maria Tallchief) were sheer joy to these jaded eyes. Many, many thanks for your tribute to my favorite art, and bravo to the New York City Ballet, which is the best in this whole world...
...knew him as "George." Some asked the amiable George home for dinner. "He was a good drinker and a good eater," said one of his hosts. "But he never talked politics. Not a word." What he did talk about was music (he liked the moderns), sports and, occasionally, his ballet-dancer wife and five-year-old daughter back in Russia...
...orchestra launched into the tuneful old Tchaikovsky score, the curtain rose on a well-stuffed parlor, and for the next two hours Manhattan ballet fans lost themselves in George Balanchine's newest ballet, a full-length re-creation of The Nutcracker. It was one of the most cheerful evenings of make-believe the ballet had seen in years...
...promises great benefits: better shows and no commercials. Broadway shows and top sporting events now kept off the air because of the promoters' fear of falling gate receipts would be telecast. First-run movies would supplement the antiques now filling the screens; opera and ballet, which seldom come into the living room, could be telecast. Pay-as-you-see could put the Metropolitan Opera on a solid financial basis. And pay-as-you-see, instead of keeping audiences away from such events, might stimulate as much interest in them as radio did in symphony orchestras...