No Poverty Here
Critics beware. History may not judge your work all that kindly. Case in point: Peter Tchaikovsky's ballet, Swan Lake. It was a big flop. Critics didn't think much of it. One said it suffered from "a poverty of creative ideas." That critic is long forgotten, but Tchaikovsky's music has lived on. Valery Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in highlights from Swan Lake, from a concert last month in London.