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Review: A Balanchine Festival, With Masterpieces in Safe Hands
'A sense of momentousness charged the air on Wednesday night when New York City Ballet performed “Symphony in C.” That 1947 masterpiece by George Balanchine is a staple of the company’s repertory, so the big deal wasn’t the performance so much as where it was happening: not at the company’s decades-old Lincoln Center home, but at New York City Center.
The occasion was the first program of “Balanchine: The City Center Years,” a major festival, running through Sunday, that the theater has organized as part of a season celebrating its own 75th anniversary as an institution. The historical echoes were large.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/arts/review-balanchine-the-city-center-years-opener.html?