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...When one gets an individual honor like this, it is also a reflection on the support of one’s associates and the institution,” Jay Lorsh, a newly elected Academy member and Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Business School, wrote in an e-mail. “After all, none of us are lone wolves...
...Balanchine?s greatest transformations was on the other side of the footlights. When he and his patron Lincoln Kirstein founded the New York City Ballet in 1948, the audience for ballet in the U.S. was on a par with that for, say, dog shows or jai alai. Today, although support for orchestras and theater companies is wavering, ballet is booming, with new companies proliferating and talented youngsters springing up continually. Much of the credit goes to Balanchine, to the brilliance of his 400-plus works and to the seminal influence of the NYCB and its satellite School of American Ballet...
Openly gay, he carried on affairs with personalities like Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet, according to Wilson...
Lynes associated with many other prominent homosexuals in the New York art world, according to several biographers. Kirstein, for example, introduced Lynes to many of the elite dancers featured in the exhibit...
DIED. LINCOLN KIRSTEIN, 88, author and arts patron; in New York City. If George Balanchine made American dance possible, Kirstein made Balanchine possible, bringing the choreographer to the U.S. in the '30s and co-creating the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet...