The three-part ballet is considered Balanchine's tribute to the three major artistic influences in his professional life: the French school, the Russian school and, of course, his own American style of classical ballet as taught in his School of American Ballet in Lincoln Center. Therefore, it was not just logical, but inspired, that the Paris Opera troupe would dance the dreamy "Emeralds" to Gabriel Fauré, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:06PM on July 25, 2017