- Additional Authors
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 32 minutes). Sophie Maslow speaks with Agnes de Mille about her time at the Neighborhood Playhouse where she first met Martha Graham and first saw her perform, in Irene Lewisohn's dance set to [Ernst] Bloch's symphony Israel; studying with Graham and Louis Horst at Graham's studio; earning her living with odd jobs and teaching; Graham as a teacher including her evident talent; [Agnes de Mille speaks about her relationship with Graham during this period]; Maslow speaks about Graham's apparent self-confidence in class and rehearsals; Graham's creative process; her work Deaths and entrances including her and Jane [Dudley's] contribution to their roles; Graham's American document; the difficulty of reconstructing Graham's early works; the Cuba tour, in 1941; working with Louis Horst [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 28 minutes). Sophie Maslow speaks with Agnes de Mille about Louis Horst as a teacher including his bluntness; Martha Graham as a critic of Horst's work including as compared with her more constructive approach to her dancers' compositions; Horst's teaching of modern forms; Graham's musical choices; Erick Hawkins including as a dancer and as a choreographer; Graham's talks to her dancers; Graham's classes as being based on what interested her at the time; the Graham dancers' development of a certain body type; Graham's solitary nature; Graham's public image and her private image of herself.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Agnes de Mille.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Sophie Maslow conducted by Agnes de Mille on March 8, 1978, in New York, as part of her research for her biography of Martha Graham entitled Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham- A Biography (1991).
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good. The recording is marred by slight "tape hiss," but for the most part, the speakers' voices are clear and easily intelligible.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
- 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 3-1632
- OCLC
- 35217041
- Author
Maslow, Sophie, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Sophie Maslow , 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.
- Event
Recorded by Agnes de Mille 1978 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 one hour); quarter-track; 1.78 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco31632_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco31632_v01f02_sc) formats in 2015.
- Source
Gift Agnes de Mille
- Connect to:
- Added Author
De Mille, Agnes. Martha.
De Mille, Agnes, interviewer.
DHCA
DHCA.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-1632