pity all the reviews this morning of the new peter martins are so unfavourable. i know the costumes were dreadful but that could probably be redesigned for another staging. and how unfair - the balanchine comparisons! just because the two balanchines were familiar favourites! and that was precisely what annoyed me too - that the balanchines were ballet staples, so why were the performances so unspectacular? at the nyc ballet there was real magic, which existed yesterday only for the thirty minutes of the martins work. argh. my mind is made up. i am going down to new york in january, after i get my term papers in, to watch the ballet every night.