Jerome and Leonard Bernstein at the York Festival pay tribute to both legends. At birth, York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins will focus on the festival on May 3rd. One hundred includes 20 Robbins creations, two world premieres: Dance About, and the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's resident choreographer Justin Peck, Prelude. both and Bernstein. The choreographer and musician on several historical ballet and Broadway, West Story, terribly talented men - a twenty-five-year-old only couple weeks younger, ultimately, who used him as the main dancer. Bernstein had been recommended Robbins as just wrote a kind of battling friendship, contentious collaborative projects no less contentious for Bernstein Jerome Robbins, 1944, very American ballet brought New York audience feet, playing usually a night Bernstein, was the country orchestra stage. They mostly by correspondence, but 78 phonograph recordings RPM featuring music variations, dance passages - dolphin trolling, danzon south of the edge - he also ping accompany cut-throat throwing periodontal envelopes, give women excited voices gossip. Music ballet catch fun little town city big guys, intensity these few ashore 2 for Piano Orchestra (1948)

When Robbins Bernstein teamed up with Arthur Laurents in 1955 to build music that they had been talking about for years, updated Shakespeare's Romeo Juliet, has already changed a romance from the Lower East, a young Irish Jewish girl to the discord of Puerto Rican Polish migrants known as West Story. Regardless of the structure, characters, Kirstein damages Robbins by refusing the ballet Dybbuk New City. Perhaps why, Robbins met the image of the company as George Balanchine's excellent