- Additional Authors
- Vaughan, David, 1924-
- Description
- Two streaming files (approximately one hour and 18 minutes) : digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 45 minutes). Alicia Markova speaks with David Vaughan about her performing career beginning with the Ballets russes; some of her roles including Odette in Swan lake and the Nightingale [in George Balanchine's Le rossignol]; her teachers, including [Enrico] Cecchetti and Nicolas Legat; the typical corps de ballet dancer's technique then as compared with now; additional roles she learned while at the Ballets russes; Bronislava Nijinska as a teacher and as a choreographer including works she staged for the Markova-Dolin company; working with Leonide Massine including his ballet Rouge et noir and Seventh symphony; other choreographers who created works for her including Antony Tudor and Frederick Ashton [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 33 minutes). Alicia Markova continues to speak with David Vaughan about her performing career including learning the role of Coppélia [while on tour with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo]; her current activities including her master classes; coaching; Ashton's work Les rendez-vous; Kyra Nijinsky's version of Mephisto valse including as distinguished from Ashton's work of the same title; Ashton's later version entitled Vision of Marguerite [the final approximate eight minutes of this streaming file consists of extraneous, recorded music and unrelated commentary read aloud].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of David Vaughan.
- Subjects
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Audiotapes > Markova, A
- Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988
- Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987
- Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
- Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972
- Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004 > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Alicia Markova conducted by David Vaughan on October 13, 1975 in London, England, as research for a Dance Magazine article entitled Conversations with Markova (June 1977, pages 56-62).
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by extraneous noise including "tape hiss," and the voice of the interviewee, Alicia Markova, is often soft. However, for the most part, she is easily intelligible.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Division of the New York Public Library as well as 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
- *MGZTC3-519 (former)
- OCLC
- 79783151
- Author
Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Alicia Markova, 1975.
- Imprint
1975.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by David Vaughan October 13, 1975 New York (N.Y.).
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Division of the New York Public Library as well as 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 cassette (approximately one hour and 18 minutes); polyester; quarter-track; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2015.
- Local Note
Former classmark: *MGZTC 3-519
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Vaughan, David, 1924- interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTC3-519 (former)