Episode 2.1: Hear the Dance: A History of New York City Ballet (Part 1)
How did New York City Ballet come to be? Join Corps de Ballet Member Silas Farley as he goes deep into the history of Lincoln Kirstein and George Balanchine’s groundbreaking company. (30:30)
Continue listening to Part 2 of this episode.
All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra.
Ballets discussed in this episode:
Sleeping Beauty
Serenade
Orpheus
Concerto Barocco
Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Symphony in C
Quotations from the writings of Lincoln Kirstein are © 2019 by the New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations).
READING LIST
Reference Books for the Entire Season
Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century by Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick
Reference Books for Hear the Dance: A History of New York City Ballet, Parts 1 & 2
Thirty Years: New York City Ballet by Lincoln Kirstein
By With To & From: A Lincoln Kirstein Reader Edited by Nicholas Jenkins
Repertory in Review: Forty Years of The New York City Ballet by Nancy Reynolds
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of The New York City Ballet Edited by Lynn Garafola with Eric Foner
Balanchine and Kirstein’s American Enterprise by James Steichen
Balanchine: A Biography by Bernard Taper
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins by Amanda Vaill
Far From Denmark by Peter Martins
In Balanchine’s Company: A Dancer’s Memoir by Barbara Milberg Fisher