Profile: George Balanchine's "Don Quixote"

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STEVE INSKEEP
Morning Edition (NPR)
06-22-2005
Profile: George Balanchine's "Don Quixote"

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Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

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When New York City Ballet choreographer George Balanchine died in 1983, he left behind more than 400 ballets. In his will, he gave the rights to some of those works to people he felt would take good care of them. One of the heirs was dancer Suzanne Farrell. She was widely known to be one of Balanchine's greatest obsessions during his lifetime, and one of the ballets he gave her, "Don Quixote," was seen as a kind of love letter to the ...

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