A Fine Century Weekend
Aug 26, 2018
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I figured that I really should have a bit of Leonard Bernstein's own music on the 100th anniversary of his birth yesterday. So, here's a successful, but lesser-known piece of his work, Fancy Free. This was a ballet that ended up being the basis for a longer work, the musical On the Town, about three sailors on shore leave in New York City. (Later made into a movie.)
This is the full ballet, written in 1944 and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. performed here by the New York City Ballet in 1986,

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