NYC Ballet's Swan Lake is to Die For

 The sheer beauty of Swan Lake is as alluring as always.  Somethings never loose their lustre.  This is  not my 1st or last time I will attend this ballet.  I was entirely enchanted by the music & dancing. I was  transported by the Company & charmed by the young dancers.  Tschaikovsky's score is timeless.  What?!?  Maestro Tschaikovsky's composition was not acceptable for the premier of Swan Lake in Moscow, 1877.  Incredulously, the conductor & lead ballerina were opposed to the great Maestro's glorious music and it was replaced for the performances.  This spurning of Tschaikovsky's music  shunned him from composing for ballet again until Sleeping Beauty, 1890 & The Nutcracker in 1892.  With the popularity of both & the death of Mr. Tschaikovsky in 1893, a resurgence of interest in his work prompted the production of Swan Lake with Tschaikovsky's original & most beloved score.  Swan Lake is a timeless work of great eminence. Such a pity the genius of Tschaikovsky composition for Swan Lake was not heralded in his lifetime.  The dancing of the dying swan moves me every time.