Lincoln Kirstein's Religious Ballet

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: June 8, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Through Judaism, mysticism and Catholicism, the spiritual and the aesthetic were fused for the powerful cultural force.

One hundred years since his birth, historians, critics and aesthetes alike are still trying to figure out just who Lincoln Kirstein really was. Or, rather, they are just beginning to.

The title of Kirstein's first biography, "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein" (Knopf, 2007) by Martin Duberman, implies the magnitude of the project Kirstein, best known for luring George Balanchine to America and co-founding with him the School of American Ballet in 1933, and the New York City ...

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