- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 26 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). [Begins abruptly.] Rudolf Nureyev speaks with Walter Terry about exploring, with Sol Hurok, the possibility of presenting a dance showcase at [Radio City] Music Hall [following a short gap at approximately 6:00, the venue changes, to a restaurant]; dancing Le spectre de la rose; designing the costume; an anecdote about Margot Fonteyn and Le spectre de la rose; his thoughts on Vaslaw Nijinsky; virtuosity as compared to stage presence; how he tried to portray Siegfried's melancholy mood in Swan lake and John Martin's review; some aspects of his training in the [former] Soviet Union [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 40 minutes). Rudolf Nureyev continues to speak with Walter Terry about his training in the [former] Soviet Union; he speaks about his current activities; his joy in dancing; roles he would like to dance and how his interpretation of roles has changed now that he is in his forties; his admiration for August Bournonville's choreography; Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet including his approach to Shakespeare; his interest in choreographing a poem by Lord Byron; his thoughts on portraying Nijinsky; Margot Fonteyn's ability to portray young women such as Juliet and Aurora, even now;
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Rudolf Nureyev conducted by Walter Terry on April 25, 1978. All but the first six minutes of the interview is conducted in a restaurant where, in a few instances, other, unidentified speakers, contribute to the discussion.
- Sound quality is fair to poor. The recording is marred by extraneous noise, which is quite loud at times.
- 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 3-825
- OCLC
- 81222391
- Author
Nureyev, Rudolf, 1938-1993, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Rudolf Nureyev, 1978
- Production
1978
- 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 Walter Terry 1978, April 25
- 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 26 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3825_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3825_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-825
- Source
Gift Walter Terry
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-825