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Lincoln Edward Kirstein (May 4, 1907 – January 5, 1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet. He developed and sustained the company with his organizing ability and fundraising for more than four decades, serving as the company's General Director from 1946 to 1989. According to the ''New York Times,'' he was "an expert in many fields," organizing art exhibits and lecture tours in the same years. ==Early life== Kirstein was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Rose (née Stein) and Louis E. Kirstein.〔("Lincoln Kirstein" ), New york Public Library〕 The grandson of a successful Rochester clothing manufacturer, he grew up in a wealthy Jewish Bostonian family and attended the private Berkshire School, graduating in 1926. His father was president of Filene's Department Store when Lincoln entered Harvard. In 1927, while an undergraduate (he graduated in 1930), Kirstein was annoyed that the literary magazine ''The Harvard Advocate'' would not accept his work. With a friend Varian Fry, who met his wife Eileen through Lincoln's sister Mina, he convinced his father to finance their own literary quarterly, the ''Hound & Horn.'' After he moved in 1930 to New York, taking the quarterly with him, it became an important publication in the artistic world. It lasted until 1934 when Lincoln decided to fund the Russian choreographer George Balanchine instead in his development of an American ballet school and company. His interest in Balanchine and ballet started when he saw Balanchine's ''Apollo'' performed by the Ballets Russes. Kirstein became determined to bring Balanchine to America. Together with Edward Warburg (a classmate from Harvard), they started the School of American Ballet in Hartford, Connecticut, in October 1933. In 1934, the studio moved to the fourth floor of a building at Madison Avenue and 59th Street in New York City. Warburg's father invited the group of students from the evening class to perform at a private party. The ballet they performed was ''Serenade'', the first major ballet choreographed by Balanchine in the United States. Just months later Kirstein and Warburg founded, together with Balanchine and Vladimir Dimitriew, the American Ballet. This became the resident company of the Metropolitan Opera. That arrangement was unsatisfactory because the Opera would not allow Balanchine and Kirstein artistic freedom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lincoln Kirstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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