Croce, Arlene The New Yorker 1975

Details the dances. “The piece is one of those on an American subject in which Balan- chine becomes completely an American choreographer —not the Stravinsky-Balanchine, or the Balanchine of ‘Western Symphony’ or ‘Stars and Stripes,’ who ex- presses America from a European point of view, but a Balanchine who sees us at the same distance from which we see Ourselves.”