Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Larry Long. September 11, 1974, 1974.

Author

Long, Larry, 1936-2009

Publication

1974

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Wentink, Andrew Mark

Description

2 sound discs (approximately one hour and 33 minutes): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (approximately 44 minutes). Larry Long speaks with Andrew Wentink about his early dance training and career including how he first came to dance for Ruth Page in the Chicago Opera Ballet; his initial impressions of Page's company; the types of roles and ballets characteristic of the company; working with Page including her demanding artistic standards, for example in her ballet Camille; his relationship with Page including several anecdotes; Page as a director and as a choreographer including her excellent aesthetic sense; the guest artists and teachers she brought in; the nature of Page's ballets in particular how she tailored them to her dancers; Page as a mentor to him and other dancers.
• Disc 2 (approximately 50 minutes). Larry Long continues to speak with Andrew Wentink about working with Ruth Page including his first years with her Chicago Opera Ballet company; some of his roles; taking on the job of ballet master; choreographing his first work, Bagatelle, including anecdotes about Page's mentoring him through the process; his teaching including how much he had learned from his own teachers; his goals for the [Ruth Page Foundation] school; his relationship with Page; her enduring energy and enthusiasm; anecdotes about Page as artistic director; his great respect for Page and the great impact she has had on him, other dancers, and dance in the United States [recording ends at 44:30; final approximate 5:30 minutes are blank].

Alternative Title

• Dance Oral History Project
• Dance Audio Archive

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Long, L
• Page, Ruth, 1899-1991
• Ruth Page Foundation
• Camille (Choreographic work : Page)
• Long, Larry, 1936-2009
• Chicago Opera Ballet
• Dance teachers

Note

• Interview with Larry Long conducted by Andrew Wentink on September 11, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois as part of the Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division's Oral history project..
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by extraneous noise including "tape hiss" (particularly after 33:33 into disc 2) and occasional short gaps. However, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.

Funding (note)

• The conservation 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.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-226

OCLC

78653875

Author

Long, Larry, 1936-2009, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Larry Long. September 11, 1974, 1974.

Production

1974

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Event

Recorded by Andrew Wentink 1974, September 11 Chicago (Ill.)

Funding

The conservation 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.

Original Version

Original format: one sound reel (approximately one hour and 33 minutes); 5 inches; polyester, half-track; 1 7/8 ips.,; transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013.

Local Note

For transcript of interview: see *MGZMT 5-226

Former classmark: *MGZT 5-226

Added Author

Wentink, Andrew Mark, interviewer.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-226