- Additional Authors
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately 44 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 31 minutes). Miriam Gray speaks about her background and education, including at the University of Missouri and Columbia University Teachers College; her time in New York City including seeing performances by Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Fred and Adele Astaire, and others; her first years as a teacher; her further studies of dance, in Hawaii, and at Columbia University; the many dancers and ground-breaking choreography she saw in performance; the resumption of her teaching career; changes in her students over the years; current trends in dance [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (13 minutes). Miriam Gray continues to speak about current trends in dance including gains and losses in funding and programs; her hopes for the future in dance education.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-599.
- Interview with Miriam Gray conducted by Gwen K. Smith on May 10, 1977 in Normal, Illinois for the oral history project of the National Dance Association, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
- Sound quality is fair on streaming audio file 1 (low volume) and good on streaming audio file 2. The recording is marred by some distortion, but the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.
- 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)
- American Alliance of of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-599
- OCLC
- 81414168
- Author
Gray, Miriam, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Miriam Gray, 1977
- Production
1977
- Type of Content
spoken word
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
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 Gwen K. Smith 1977, May 10 Normal (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 cassette (approximately 44 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: (myd_mgztco3599_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3599_v01f02_sc).
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-599
- Source
Gift American Alliance of of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Smith, Gwen K., interviewer.
National Dance Association.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, sponsor.
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, donor
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-599