Two snippets from the 10/24/10 print edition of the NYT...

Gia Kourlas writes about Gelsey Kirkland's new ballet school. One student explains why she's continuing at the school instead of transfering to a more prestigious academy:

"I have issues with my turnout," Ms. [Katia] Raj said, referring to the hip rotation in ballet. "I've always been told, 'Turn out, turn out, turn out,' but here it's like, 'Turn in a little bit, find the right muscle, and then turn out more.' The style is nothing I've ever had before. I'm working correctly."

On Kirkland's process:

Ms. Kirkland's classes usually run long: creating an expressive, sensitive instrument that is also healthy is painstaking. "Instead of running away from something," Ms. Kirkland said, "you have to be able to hang in there and work through it, and that develops an ability to tolerate hardship. This element of suffering through is what gives a dancer that translucent quality onstage. It creates a sense of eternity."

In "Matters of Spirit in a World of Hectic Clamor," Steve Smith interviews Lincoln Center administrator Jane Moss. This quote about her goals sings to me:

To me the ultimate success, I suppose, would be that you, the listener, fall in love the way I do every day of my life. If I were able to give that to people -- that, "Oh my God, this music makes me feel whole," for maybe only two hours -- that would feel good to be able to do that.