- Additional Authors
- Stern, Lee Edward
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 32 minutes) : digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 32 minutes). [Music and opening announcement.] Lee Edward Stern introduces Walter Terry; Walter Terry speaks with Lee Edward Stein about his remarkable memory for song lyrics; Mikhail Baryshnikov including his time at New York City Ballet; his reservations about Baryshnikov's appointment as director as American Ballet Theatre; (briefly) Baryshnikov as an artist; Cynthia Gregory; Lucia Chase including her role at American Ballet Theatre; Alexander Godunov; Terry's biography of August Bournonville [The king's ballet master; a biography of Denmark's August Bournonville, 1979]; his role in introducing Bournonville's ballets to the United States; La sylphide; the Bournonville style including the dramatic nature of his ballets; the use of mime and relatively slow pace of Bournonville's ballets. [Music and closing announcement followed by approximately one minute of an unrelated recording.]
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Gift of Walter Terry.
- Uniform Title
- Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Walter Terry conducted by Lee Edward Stern, as host; broadcast on January 19, 1980 by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series Speaking of dance.
- The sound quality is very good.
- The processing 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.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-797
- OCLC
- 36193346
- Author
Terry, Walter, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Walter Terry, 1980.
- Imprint
1980.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded for and broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York for its program Speaking of dance Broadcast on January 29, 1967 New York (N.Y.)
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 32 minutes); full-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto7797_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-797
Former call number: *MGZT 7-797
- Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-797; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in. reel; polyester, half track. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-797; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
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- Added Author
Stern, Lee Edward, interviewer.
- Added Title
Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-797