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Interview with Charles Weidman.

Title
Interview with Charles Weidman.
Author
Weidman, Charles
Publication
[1974?]

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Details

Additional Authors
Nathanson, Lucile Brahms
Description
1 streaming audio file (approximately 16 minutes): digital
Summary
Streaming audio file (approximately 16 minutes). [Music.] Lucile Brahms Nathanson introduces the program Making the dance scene, and her guest, Charles Weidman; Weidman speaks with Nathanson about his background; joining the Denishawn Dancers and touring with the company; Ruth St. Denis's performing of her Nautch dance in Rangoon [now Yangon] and in India; his program of recreated Denishawn works; an upcoming article [Three years with Charles Weidman by David W. Wynne, Dance Perspectives Foundation, 1974] about Charles Weidman and Doris Humphrey in the journal Dance perspectives; his and other modern dance choreographers' social consciousness in the 1930s, as reflected in their work; Dance horizons [closing remarks and music].
Donor/Sponsor
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
  • Gift of Lucile Nathanson.
Uniform Title
Making the dance scene (Radio program)
Alternative Title
Dance Audio Archive
Subjects
Genre/Form
Sound recordings.
Note
  • Interview with Charles Weidman conducted by Lucile Brahms Nathanson, as host, for broadcast by WHPC-FM, the radio station of Nassau Community College, on its series Making the dance scene.
  • Sound quality is excellent although the recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  • Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Funding (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
*MGZTO 5-447
OCLC
37633135
Author
Weidman, Charles, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Charles Weidman.
Imprint
[1974?]
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Funding
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.
Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 16 minutes); full-track; 3.75 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto5447_v01f01_sc.
Event
Recorded by WHPC-FM 197- Garden City (N.Y.)
Local Note
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
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Added Author
Nathanson, Lucile Brahms, interviewer.
Added Title
Making the dance scene (Radio program)
Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-447
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