Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
From Robert Gottlieb
The 1920s brought not only the Charleston but the flat chest.
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away and, in the great tradition of the Cheshire Cat, there's nothing left but Peter Martins' smile.
Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?
Twyla Tharp is not going to take orders from anyone, not even Mozart!
Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.
The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.
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