- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 25 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 25 minutes). [Music and introductory remarks.] Walter Terry introduces the program and his guest Gerd Larsen, principal teacher and mime with the Royal Ballet, London; Gerd Larsen speaks about teaching the company classes; the men's classes; coaching for solo parts; the relationship of the (junior and senior) Royal Ballet schools to the company; the two sections that make up the Royal Ballet; the non-ballet curriculum at the Royal Ballet schools including folk dancing and the Benesh system of notation; her favorite role: the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet [closing remarks and music].
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Uniform Title
- Invitation to dance (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Gerd Larsen on the Royal Ballet conducted by Walter Terry as host; recorded on April 23, 1967 and broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York, on its program series, Invitation to dance.
- The sound quality is excellent.
- The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-2010
- OCLC
- 37122336
- Author
Larsen, Gerd, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Gerd Larsen on the Royal Ballet.
- Imprint
1967.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded for broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York, on its program series, Invitation to dance April 23, 1967 New York (N.Y.)
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 25 minutes); polyester; full-track, 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto72010_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2010
Former call number: *MGZT 7-19
- Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-19; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in. reel; acetate. Relabeled as *MGZTO 7-2010 as of September 11, 2014. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2010; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
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- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Added Title
Invitation to dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-2010