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...music world - New York City Center's Lincoln Kirstein, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, Clarinetist Benny Goodman - also commission music for their own use. Among the increasing number of people who commission music for private purposes: a Philadelphia lady who commissioned a piece in memory of her dog. Standard fees: about $1,000 for a symphony, $2,500 for an opera...
Healthy girls-good food, probably. A country that had all those beautiful girls would be a good place for ballet." At that crucial point, he met a young American named Lincoln Kirstein who had exactly the same idea...
...Kirstein was a huge (6 ft. 4 in.), bullet-headed young man, who, though just out of Harvard, was already showing signs of becoming the U.S. version of Diaghilev himself (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). An heir to a Filene department-store fortune in Boston, he was an editor of the arts magazine Hound & Horn, author of a rash first novel and a book of poetry, and teetering on the edge of balletomania. His dream: to found a truly American ballet company. There was nothing for it but to get the world's foremost Russian choreographer to spark it. Balanchine...
...Beginners. Balanchine and Kirstein put their heads together and decided that the first step in forming a company would be to open a ballet school. The reasoning: it would provide a constant source of new dancers whose training could be controlled so that they could walk right into the company. That is the way it worked out. The School of American Ballet soon became the best and busiest in the U.S., and from its classes came a stream of top American dancers.* School Director Balanchine drew up and supervised the curriculum, from the first positions of the eight-year-olds...
...Rockefeller Foundation reached out last week to drop some more financial encouragement in the lap of music and ballet. The beneficiary: Manhattan's City Center, which got $200,000 to commission and design new works. Managing Director Lincoln Kirstein will divide the money between the City Opera and his now world-famed City Ballet. It was the foundation's second pat on the nation's musical back in three months. This spring, it gave $400,000 to the Louisville Orchestra (TIME, April 27) to commission and record new instrumental music...