- Additional Authors
- Matheson, Katy
- Description
- Four streaming audio files (approximately two hours and 34 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). David Vaughan speaks with Katy Matheson about his family background and childhood in England including his early theater experiences; his education; the origins of his interest in ballet; his time at the University of Oxford including his participation in the Ballet Club and taking class with Marie Rambert; being drafted while still in school [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 45 minutes). David Vaughan speaks with Katy Matheson about his decision not to return to the University of Oxford after being discharged from the Army; taking class with Audrey de Vos; Marie Rambert and her classes; his war time service in India including his dance-related activities; his awareness of modern dance at the time; his performing career in London; seeing New York City Ballet in London and meeting Lincoln Kirstein [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 3].
- Streaming audio file 3 (approximately 45 minutes). David Vaughan speaks with Katy Matheson about his first years in New York including his classes at the School of American Ballet, on scholarship; his teachers including Anatole Oboukhoff and Felia Doubrovska; Lincoln Kirstein's support of his choreographic efforts; Trudy Goth; the teaching method of Audrey de Vos compared with that of his teachers at the School of American Ballet [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 4].
- Streaming audio file 4 ( approximately 18 minutes). David Vaughan speaks with Katy Matheson about the dancers and students at the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet, respectively, as compared with the dancers he had known in England; his focus at that time on choreographing rather than dancing; his impressions of Merce Cunningham and his work; taking class at Martha Graham's school.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of David Vaughan
- Gift of Katy Matheson.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with David Vaughan conducted by Katy Matheson in spring 1979 in New York City, for the Columbia University Oral History Seminar.
- For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-521.
- Sound quality is good overall.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- 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 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.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-521
- OCLC
- 83089745
- Author
Vaughan, David, 1924- interviewee.
- Title
Interview with David Vaughan, 1979
- Production
1979
- 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 Katy Matheson 1979 New York (N.Y.)
- 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: two sound cassettes (approximately two hours and 34 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco3521_v01f01_sc, myd_mgztco3521_v01f02_sc, myd_mgztco3521_v02f01_sc, and myd_mgztco3521_v02f02_sc) in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-521
- Source
Gift David Vaughan
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Matheson, Katy, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-521