Ballerinas Aren't as Chubby as they used to be

From Classic Arts Showcase

Ekaterina Geltzer and Vasili Tikhomirov (1911)
"Moment Musicale...pas de deux"
Music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
"The Glory of the Bolshoi"
Kultur/NVC Arts

I guess you need 500 pound male ballet dancers 💪if they have to hoist around 300 pound female dancers 🦛 [no ballet emoji ] https://t.co/jXzVhLNQHP pic.twitter.com/qxLFxE5H3P

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) June 11, 2018

And a kludgy cell phone recording in case the youtube link breaks:

Ponchielli Dance of the Hours from the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia. 🐊🦛https://t.co/kQpU8q7gbb pic.twitter.com/BYPiZUm8WS

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) June 11, 2018

#ClassicArtsShowcase Dvorak Copland Smorgasburg

A clip from The Joy of Music in which Diane Bish gives a brief bio of Czech composer, Antonín Leopold Dvořák. Bish points out Dvorak's Dad was a butcher and a professional zither player vs just an amateur farm league zither player:

"His father was a butcher, innkeeper, and a professional player of the zither. Dvorak studied music in Prague's only organ school."

Question: Do cities typically have more than one organ school?

Bish continues:

"Throughout his life, Dvorak was taken with Czech's folk music and many of his compositions were built on these beautiful themes."

Another composer who also enjoyed building his compositions on traditional folk music themes, Aaron Copland, had his music for the ballet "Rodeo" included in the Classic Arts Showcase rotation:

A link to the American Ballet Theatre 1973 "Rodeo" performance sans "Hoedown" uploaded by David Coll:

put Dvorak  family butcher history + Copeland dancing cowboys = beef what's for dinner old TV ad:

And, in case you wondered what a zither sounded like and were in the mood for some surf and turf, Traditional Chinese Music: "Fisherman's Song at Dusk," uploaded by NTDonMusic