Patron Saints by Nicholas Fox Weber

Author:Nicholas Fox Weber [Weber, Nicholas Fox]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8041-5402-4
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2014-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

This was not their sole objection, but the local paper could hardly be expected to say that the Russians had found Hartford to be a hostile environment and that they were longing for eighteenth-century housing and better restaurants. In any event, less than a week after it had arrived, the American Ballet School left Hartford.

Hartford did not have sustaining power, but without it, the new ballet would never have progressed beyond the drawing board. Austin and the Atheneum had given the ballet the legitimacy that enabled Warburg to guarantee sufficient funds and that persuaded Balanchine that he was really heading somewhere. It was the Hartford area congressman who cleared the paperwork. But the only place where the new enterprise had a real chance was New York.

Balanchine and Dimitriev might not find an eighteenth-century apartment in Manhattan, but at least they could go to the Russian Tea Room. Not only was Eddie Warburg willing to pick up their tabs there, but he also paid the rent checks for the ballet school’s new premises in Isadora Duncan’s former studio at 637 Madison Avenue. Balanchine had its walls painted the gray-blue that he remembered from the Imperial Academy. Everything was coming together at last. A new corporation was formed, in which lawyers who usually concerned themselves with the problems of Kuhn, Loeb and the legacy of Jacob Schiff now turned their energy to the needs of a fledgling ballet company. Official letterheads were printed for the School of American Ballet, Inc., with Georges (in this case using the s) Balanchine as its artistic director, Edward M. M. Warburg, president, Vladimir Dimitriev, vice president, Lincoln E. Kirstein, secretary-treasurer. Advertisements appeared in the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times telling future students how to register and explaining that the purpose of the new institution was

to develop a national ballet created by American artists to express an American tradition. The curriculum constitutes a complete education in the art of the dance and has been designed to train a permanent company of American dancers whose productions will be presented by the school.13

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