Archives for March 30, 2016

George Balanchine’s “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux,” danced by Patricia McBride and Mikhail Baryshnikov. The score was originally composed by Tchaikovsky for Swan Lake but was not published until 1953. This performance was originally telecast by PBS in 1978:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.)

“Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”

Mark Twain, “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”