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...York City Ballet toasts a composer who set feet flying...
Tchaikovsky, who loved to dance, was irresistibly attracted to writing ballets. If his structural sense of music was weak, he was a wizardly orchestrator who turned out waltzes and mazurkas that set feet flying. Along with Léo Delibes, he rescued ballet music from critical contempt...
...hopes that his seat in heaven has an unobstructed view of Manhattan's Lincoln Center because the New York City Ballet has been putting on a rousing festival there in his honor, with 13 new ballets by six choreographers and several older works by the company's resident genius, George Balanchine...
...celebration inevitably produced the sorts of glitches on which N.Y.C.B. fans seem to thrive. There was one real disappointment: in the midst of the first performance of Mozartiana, Balanchine's major effort, Suzanne Farrell sprained her foot; subsequent performances of a beautiful and complex ballet had to be canceled. When Jacques d'Amboise saw his new Concert Fantasy performed for the first time before a full theater, he promptly canceled the last half of it; that led to a certain bemusement among those trying to follow the printed program, which remained unchanged on later evenings. Jerome Robbins...
Robbins' longer work, Piano Pieces, was an immediate hit. In it he gives some deservedly obscure Tchaikovsky piano works the elegance of Chopin and catches the bursting talents of more young stars. The ballet's best pas de deux shows the fleet wit of Heather Watts and Bart Cook, who always seem to see the double side of life. The choreographer also notes the rippling serenity of Kyra Nichols, who sometimes seems unaware of the audience. Most of all, Robbins shows off Ib Andersen. Since he has four new roles, this might even be called an Ib Andersen...