[audiobook] Brecht at the Opera (California Studies in 20th-Century Music) by Joy H. Calico in Arts-Photography

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The foremost contemporary choreographer in the history of ballet; George Balanchine extended the art form into radical new paths that came to seem inevitable under his direction. He transformed movement and dance in classical and modern ballet; on the Broadway stage; and in the cinema.George Balanchine chronicles the life and achievements of this visionary artist from his early; almost accidental career in Russia; where his lifelong collaboration with Igor Stravinsky was forged; to his extraordinary accomplishments in America. The editor and writer Robert Gottlieb; one of the most knowledgeable dance critics in America; offers a superb and loving portrait of a genius who; though married many times to many ballerinas; remained truest to his greatest love; Terpischore; the Greek Muse of dance.