- Additional Authors
- Watts, Carolyn, 1914-2002.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 31 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 31 minutes). [Music and announcements.] P.W. Manchester and Carolyn Watts discuss the development of ballet after [Marius] Petipa, namely Michel Fokine and the changes he brought to ballet; his rejected proposal in 1905 for a ballet based on the story of Daphnis and Chloe; his experimenting with students and dancers at the Mariinsky Theatre, including Anna Pavlova; his choreographing of The dying swan for Pavlova; Fokine's 1908 work Shopeniana [as revised now known as Les sylphides]; Serge Diaghilev's short tenure at the Imperial Ballet; Diaghilev's bringing of Russian dancers and Fokine's choreography to western Europe [a recording of a mazurka by Frédéric Chopin from Les sylphides is played]; Fokine's innovations including his break from the tradition of evening-length ballets [a recording of the music for the second variation for the male dancer in Les sylphides is played]; Fokine's practice of making changes in Les sylphides for each company on which he set it; the work's status as the first abstract ballet; the question as to whether a certain step was added by Pierre Vladimiroff or had been danced by Vasclaw Nijinsky in the original version; an anecdote about André Eglevsky and this step; Les sylphides as both the seed for future ballets and as a classic work in its own right [music and announcements].
- Series Statement
- Arabesques ; no. 9
- Uniform Title
- Arabesques (Radio program)
- Arabesques ; no. 9.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- P. W. Manchester and Carolyn Watts discuss how Michel Fokine brought ballet into a new age; recorded at WGUC-FM, the radio station of the University of Cincinnati, for the radio program Arabesques, and broadcast on the National Public Radio network, in 1975.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is excellent.
- 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
- *MGZTO 5-496
- OCLC
- 81025485
- Author
Manchester, P. W. (Phyllis Winifred)
- Title
Fokine brings ballet into a new age : Les sylphides.
- Imprint
1975
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Series
Arabesques ; no. 9
Arabesques ; no. 9.
- Event
Recorded by WGUC-FM, the radio station of the University of Cincinnati 1975 Cincinnati (Ohio)
- 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 31 minutes); polyester; 5 in.; full-track; 3 3/4 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto5496_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZT 5-496
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- Added Author
Watts, Carolyn, 1914-2002.
- Added Title
Arabesques (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-496
*MGZT 5-496