Lincoln Kirstein: Program Notes 1934-1991 [hardcover ]

In the hands of a dance enthusiast like Lincoln Kirstein, the mundaneform of the program note became a short essay providing usefulinformation for the audience and beating a drum for the value ofclassical dance and the intimacy achieved by the greatestchoreographers and their living or historical musical collaborators. Thisdelightful collection of notes from the School of American Ballet, fromthe man who brought Balanchine to America, shows the young Kirsteinlearning about ballet and passing this knowledge on to his readers, andeventually espousing a New Deal faith in the power of American cultureto transform traditional modes into populist expressions with a nativeresonance. A modest but irrepressible complement to Lincoln Kirstein'sother published work, in his inimitable voice.