- Additional Authors
- Gruen, John
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 17 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, a Danish ballet critic, speaks with John Gruen about his background and career as a critic; Erik Bruhn as a young boy; his first major role, in Harald Lander's ballet Thorvalden at the Royal Danish Ballet [Kongelige Danske ballet]; Bruhn's personality; his training and some of his teachers; August Bournonville and Bournonville style; Bruhn as a classical dancer; as a character dancer, in Carmen [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 31 minutes). Svend Kragh-Jacobsen speaks with John Gruen about Erik Bruhn in classical prince roles including Swan lake; the Danish ballerina Elna Lassen; Margot Lander; Bruhn as a person; his mother; Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet pas de deux; Henning Kromstam, the new director of the Royal Danish Ballet; Bruhn and George Balanchine's ballet Apollo; some promising young Danish dancers including Peter Martins, Peter Schaufuss, and Adam Lüders.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of John Gruen.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- For edited transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-775.
- Interview with Svend Kragh-Jacobsen conducted by John Gruen on June 21, 1977, in Vienna, Austria, as part of the research for John Gruen's book, Erik Bruhn: danseur noble (Viking Press, New York, 1979).
- 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 3-775
- OCLC
- 82655264
- Author
Kragh-Jacobsen, Svend, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Svend Kragh-Jacobsen, 1977
- Production
1977
- 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 John Gruen 1977, June 21 Vienna (Austria)
- 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 one hour and 17 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3775_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3775_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-775
- Source
Gift John Gruen
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Gruen, John, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-775