NYCB Vol. 14 No. 6 - Concerto Barocco

Tanaquil LeClercq and Nicholas Magallanes. Photo by Roger Wood, 1952.

"The slow movement of Concerto Barocco--one of Balanchine's earlier works that will be given with the Ballet Society repertory--provides one of the clearest illustrations of the relation of movement to music in his ballets: the movement doesn't express or interpret the music, but like a line of counterpoint completes the music and gives it additional significance. And it is in such slow movements that Balanchine achieves some of his most exciting invention [...]" --B.H. Haggin in Ballet Chronicle

Nicholas Magallanes and Tanaquil LeClercq

Photos by Roger Wood, 1952