Talk:Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux

Tschaikovsky vs. Tchaikovsky

How 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.)

NY Times article by Alastair Macaulay, June 1, 2007

See also

• Official website Carnegie Hall

— Robert Greer (talk) 20:51, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

It seems strange that this article uses the spelling Tschaikovsky when the WP article on the composer himself uses the spelling Tchaikovsky. There was (is?) a discussion on that article about the spelling Tchai... or Chai... but no mention of the spelling Tschai.... I've copied this comment to both articles.

• There are at least two different spellings of the composer's name(s) in current use on WP. I believe we ought to establish only one spelling and use it across WP. The lack of one is chiefly because discussions have not been focused in one place. The controversy has been included - and to some extent resolved - independently on the discussion pages for at least two articles, with each spelling supported by valid arguments. It seems best to continue the discussion and resolve the controversy in only one place, and that should be the discussion page for the composer himself, so I'll refer future comments to Talk:Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky#Spelling of "Tchaikovsky" and ask you to make them there, please. Twistlethrop (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Tchaikovsky Pas de deux

This piece has been discussed at length the passages I wrote on Swan Lake and Le Corsaire.

There is a redirect - Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux - which leads to the section in the Swan Lake article.

What should we do? --Mrlopez2681 (talk) 10:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Would you object to re-directing using a see also? And/or entries on a disambiguation page?

Or should the name of this entry be changed to Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine)?

New York City Ballet spells the composer's name Tschaikovsky and has done so since Balanchine's day.

This pas de deux is danced seperately from and entirely out of the context of Swan Lake.

The article is one of what will end up being a long series I've begun about the NYCB rep.

To give you an idea of how long it may ultimately be, here is the List of New York City Ballet repertory.

It includes those I've not begun articles for as well as those I have. There are over four hundred on the long list.

NYCB dances about forty in the Spring, forty more in the Winter, so it takes over five years to go through the entire rep.

Tonight is first night of the Winter rep. season (two days ago the last Nutcracker.)

I will add the NY Times review of the orginal performance at a later date;

the Times' database of articles before 1981 has been down all day.

It is heartening to run into somebody else who is writing about ballet! Robert Greer (talk) 21:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Having thought on this overnight, I think it would be best to move this page to Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux (Balanchine) if you do not object. Robert Greer (talk) 15:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

NPOV: Notable performers

This section is full of personal comments and appreciations. It certainly shouldn’t be canned just for that, but needs to be seriously edited. 89.159.110.175 (talk) 06:52, 13 January 2020 (UTC)