Episode 2.2: Hear the Dance: A History of New York City Ballet (Part 2)

New York City Ballet’s history doesn’t end with George Balanchine. Corps de Ballet Member Silas Farley continues to recount the history of the Company and the integral roles Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins played in furthering the legacy of one of the world’s premiere ballet institutions. (30:25) This is a continuation of Part 1 of this episode. All music performed by the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Ballets discussed in this episode: Bourrée Fantasque The Cage Afternoon of a Faun The Concert Dances at a Gathering The Goldberg Variations Glass Pieces Stravinsky Violin Concerto West Side Story Suite Calcium Light Night Polyphonia After the Rain Concerto DSCH Pictures at an Exhibition Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes Everywhere We Go   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