- Additional Authors
- Farlow, Lesley
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 1 hour and 3 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 48 minutes). Theodora Wiesner speaks with Leslie Farley about her background including her training in physical education and dance at the University of Wisconsin; her graduate study in education at New York University; Martha Hill including their visits to dance programs at colleges throughout the United States; teaching, at the (former) State Teachers College of Fredericksburg, including an anecdote about her choreography for the May Day celebration; leaving to teach at the University of Pennsylvania; the New York University's summer dance camp; the Bennington College summer dance program; performing in Martha Graham's Panorama [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 44 minutes). [Sound quality is poor in this streaming audio file.] Theodora Wiesner speaks with Leslie Farley about her experiences during World War II; her career as an educator including at the Connecticut College School of Dance and Brooklyn College.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 3-640.
- Interview with Theodora Wiesner conducted by Leslie Farley, on March 8, 1976 for the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality ranges from fair (streaming audio file 1) to poor (streaming audio file 2). The speakers' voices are soft and not always intelligible, in particular on streaming audio file 2.
- 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
- *MGZTCO 3-640
- OCLC
- 79780186
- Author
Wiesner, Theodora, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Theodora Wiesner, 1979
- Imprint
1979.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded for the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center 1979, March 8 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: one sound cassette (approximately 1 hour and 3 minutes); 1.875 ips; quarter-track; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3640_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3640_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-640
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Farlow, Lesley, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-640