Dec 23, 2019
The art of ballet doesn't exist in a vacuum, and in the second half of this two-part episode of Hear the Dance, Silas Farley and cultural scholar Elizabeth Kendall, author of the 2013 book Balanchine & the Lost Muse Revolution & the Making of a Choreographer, discuss how the aftershocks of the Russian Revolution affected Balanchine's development as a choreographer, and the events that lead up to his dramatic departure from Russia in 1924. (34:20)
This is a continuation of Part 1 of this episode.
Music
The
Nutcracker by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky
Romance in E-Flat Major, Op. 44 No. 1 by Anton Rubinstein
Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat Major by Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op 35: Marche funebre - lento
Frédéric Chopin
Reading List
(Pt. 1 & Pt. 2)
Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a
Choreographer by Elizabeth Kendall
Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky: Interviews with George
Balanchine by Solomon Volkov
Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets by
George Balanchine and Francis Mason
Choura: The Memoirs of Alexandra Danilova By Alexandra
Danilova
Split Seconds: A Remembrance by Tamara Geva