“Mr. Fiorato, who was with the City Ballet for 56 years, was a figure of continuity surpassed only by George Balanchine, who founded it in 1948 with Mr. Fiorato’s mentor, the conductor Leon Barzin. Mr. Fiorato held almost every job the company had to offer, starting as its first concertmaster in 1948. ‘I was concertmaster, librarian; I did everything except sweep the floors,’ he once told an interviewer. ‘It was wonderful to be there in those early days.'”