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Article: Boston, Tchaikovsky, and birthdays. (Boston Ballet celebrates its 30th anniversary produces a Tchaikovsky Festival in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's death) (Column)
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- Dance Magazine
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- January 1, 1994
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It was a happy coincidence of anniversaries that almost serendipitously started it off. Nineteen ninety-three (well, 1994, actually) happened to be the thirtieth birthday of the Boston Ballet. Then, as the company's artistic director, Bruce Marks, noted, it was also the one hundredth anniversary of Tchaikovsky's death. What more appropriate celebration therefore could possibly be staged than the Boston Ballet paying homage to ballet's greatest composer, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
Once postulated it became obvious. A Tchaikovsky Festival, with virtually all of the Boston Ballet's 1993-94 birthday season being given over to Tchaikovsky ballets, with music that was ...