Talk:New York City Ballet
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[edit] Lists
Robert, I appreciate your attempts to improve this article, but you are not improving it but making it a gigantic series of lists. What it could use are paragraphs--textual narratives--that explore the history of the company, it's purpose, its creative vision, etc. Instead, you are creating lists about every piece it has ever performed, which is not encyclopedic since the performance of a ballet piece by a ballet company is not notable. --David Shankbone 17:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] notability of individual ballets
David, I disagree about the notability of the individual ballets. I am not creating a seperate for each performance, which would be ridiculous, not to say arduous, but if, as you argue, individual ballets are not notable, neither are Beethoven's symphonies or Wagner's operas or Shakespeare's individual plays. Following this line of reasoning to its extreme, individual baseball teams are not notable in that they could all be listed under the American League, etc. I admit to pushing the point, but I think it is valid to list individual ballets in the case of major choreographers; Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, August Bournonville, John Cranko, Birgit Cullberg (whose centennial I will attend this Saturday at the Royal Swedish Ballet where the eponymous company she founded will appear on the second half of the bill), Nacho Duato, Boris Eifman, Mats Ek (Cullberg's son), Michel Fokine, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Kurt Jooss, Kenneth MacMillan, Léonide Massine, Agnes de Mille, Mark Morris, John Neumeier, Bronislava Nijinska, Marius Petipa, Roland Petit, Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor (I have been very strict with myself and this list is very short.) Robert Greer (talk) 15:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky
How should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)
- — Robert Greer (talk) 20:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
