Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Miami City Ballet performs George Balanchine’s Square Dance, choreographed in 1957 to the music of Corelli and Vivaldi. This performance was originally telecast on PBS in 2012:
(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)
“Altogether without malice, indeed with the kindliest anxiety, older people often seemed to feel that, just so long as they implied that you were today improved, you would not mind hearing, and might profit by the reminder, that once when you were younger you were everyone’s laughing stock.”
James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust