As if that's not enough, his repertory covers country, rock, R&B and Dixieland.
And as if that weren't enough, the repertory is nothing less than Bach's sublime "St.
"There's enough great repertory out there," Mr. Drucker said, and the others joined in with their wish lists.
Mr. Jamal had an aunt who sent him sheet music of standard songs, and by the time he was 11 he had enough of a repertory to perform professionally with local musicians, some of whom were well into their 60's.
And prolific enough in the standard repertory.
And the songs on "Ten," the covers especially, have been fixtures of the trio's repertory long enough to be fully metabolized.
The New York City Opera, sensibly enough, regards its large repertory of standard works in efficient, mostly traditional stagings as its box-office bread and butter.
As the Diamond Project has proved, there are ballets that are not strong enough to endure in repertory, but they are stepping stones in a choreographer's development.
So the emerging choreographer has to hope simply that he or she has made a ballet that, like "Agon," will stay in City Ballet repertory long enough for the rest of the world to catch up.
