[36/60] "In the beginning, there was Tchaikovsky; maybe there still is. 'I always have an idea he is so happy because we do it right,' George Balanchine says, with the tense—present, not past—being a sign that the composer is sharing a communion of genius with the choreographer."
— John Corry, New York Times, 1980
Balanchine rehearsing the children onstage. Martha Swope, 1976-77.
New York Public Library
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