A complete performance by New York City Ballet of George Balanchine’s Western Symphony, filmed for French TV in 1956 and featuring Diana Adams and Herbert Bliss, Melissa Hayden and Nicholas Magallanes, Allegra Kent and Robert Barnett, and Tanaquil LeClercq and Jacques d’Amboise. The score, conducted by Leon Barzin, is by Hershy Kay:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)
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