Talk:Theme and Variations (ballet)
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Cwmhiraeth in topic DYK nomination
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Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky
editHow should the name of the composer of the music for “Serenade” be spelled? Most Westerners now spell it Tchaikovsky, but City Ballet took up, during Balanchine’s lifetime, the spelling Tschaikovsky. Why? Because that’s how the composer spelled it when he was in New York in 1891. (My thanks to the reader who sent me a copy of his Carnegie Hall autograph from the Pierpont Morgan Library.)
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editDYK nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:15, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
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Kansas City Ballet dancers in Theme and Variations
- ... that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Theme and Variations (pictured) as a tribute to the Imperial Russian ballet style? Source: [1][2]
- Reviewed: Michael Gläser
- Comment: Some of the older New York Times references in the article require a subscription to access; Not sure what should I put in the brackets for pictured.
5x expanded by Corachow (talk). Self-nominated at 21:15, 30 December 2020 (UTC).
- Ah nice: an article about ballet and Tchaikovsky. ;) Anyway, "new" enough, expansion began 12/30; long enough at 4,187 characters. I'm fine with the NYT paywall, since the ballet premiered and has been, for the most part, mostly performed in NYC, so it makes sense that a NYC source would publish the most about it. No copyright violations. No problems with close paraphrasing or plagiarism. Hook short but interesting, broad, neutral, and accurate. QPQ done. Side note: I only suspect this, and couldn't confirm it unless I did a deep dive into the sources and did my own research/google search, but I think that this article could be expanded even more, to take it beyond DYK and into GA and possibly even FA territory. For now, good enough for DYK. The pictured just tells us that there's an image.
Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 03:53, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
- Ah nice: an article about ballet and Tchaikovsky. ;) Anyway, "new" enough, expansion began 12/30; long enough at 4,187 characters. I'm fine with the NYT paywall, since the ballet premiered and has been, for the most part, mostly performed in NYC, so it makes sense that a NYC source would publish the most about it. No copyright violations. No problems with close paraphrasing or plagiarism. Hook short but interesting, broad, neutral, and accurate. QPQ done. Side note: I only suspect this, and couldn't confirm it unless I did a deep dive into the sources and did my own research/google search, but I think that this article could be expanded even more, to take it beyond DYK and into GA and possibly even FA territory. For now, good enough for DYK. The pictured just tells us that there's an image.
