On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> Joanna wrote:
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>> he (Balanchine) foundered in the states where none were the wiser.
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> Yeah. Those New Yorkers, what a bunch of rubes.
My first wife took me to lots of NYCB performances during the Balanchine years. The audience was full of the cultural elite. I even talked with some of them. I wouldn't want them setting social policy, but they were the furthest thing from rubes.
Doug