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Article: Jerome Robbins (1918-98): Jerome Robbins made indelible changes in both musical theater and classical ballet.
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- Dance Magazine
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- October 1, 1998
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Jerome Robbins made indelible changes in both musical theater and classical ballet.
Jerome Robbins, felled by a stroke at the age of seventy-nine, was one of the great ones. Appropriately, it was Peter Martins, his longtime colleague at New York City Ballet, who put it best: "He was the last of the titans in the world of dance. Balanchine is gone. So are Ashton, Tudor, and Graham. And now Jerry." But Robbins, like Balanchine before him, is one of the lucky ones. As Martins concluded: "He will live on through his ballets, by which the next generation will come to know him and appreciate him as we have. He regarded New York City Ballet as his family, and he will ...