Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley's 'MasterPieces' revives seminal works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp
Has there ever been a more consequential American ballet than 'Fancy Free'? Premiering at the Metropolitan Opera House on April 18, 1944, the piece turbocharged the careers of two little-known but grandly ambitious and ferociously talented 25-year-olds, choreographer Jerome Robbins and composer Leonard Bernstein.