- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 27 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 52 minutes). Tamara Geva speaks with Nancy Reynolds about her transition from dancing to singing; some of the theatrical productions and films in which she appeared including The Trojan women directed by Margaret Webster, and George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance; her book Split seconds: a remembrance; her father including his theater collection; reminiscences of Lidia Ivanova and Mathilda Kchessinska; her time dancing for Serge Diaghilev [and the Ballets russes]; the teachers at the School of American Ballet compared to her teachers in Russia; toe shoes; early works of George Balanchine including Romance and and Enigma; leaving Russia; her impressions of Diaghilev; the opening of [Bronislava Nijinska's and Balanchine's] Romeo and Juliet in Paris [in 1926] and the uproar over the Joan Mirò curtain; Enrico Cecchetti as a teacher; [ends abruptly but continues directly on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 35 minutes). [The first approximate 20 seconds reiterate the final approximate 20 seconds of streaming audio file 1.] Tamara Geva speaks with Nancy Reynolds about Serge Diaghilev and her time at the Ballets russes; George Balanchine's The triumph of Neptune; Serge Lifar and his plastic surgery; [Balanchine's] Pastorale and his Chant du rossignol [Song of the nightingale]; the seemingly random course of her career; Balanchine's working style; the revue Three's a crowd and her dance Talkative toes; Clifton Webb; the musical Flying colors including her initial plan to engage Agnes de Mille as a choreographer; her regret that she stopped dancing when she did; [Balanchine's] Slaughter on 10th Avenue [originally performed as part of the musical comedy On your toes]; hindsight as to mistakes she made in her career.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Musicals > On your toes
- Oral histories
- Sound recordings
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Triumph of Neptune (Choreographic work : Balanchine)
- Romeo and Juliet (Choreographic work : Balanchine and Nijinska)
- Ballets russes
- Geva, Tamara > Split seconds
- Cecchetti, Enrico, 1850-1928
- De Mille, Agnes
- Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986
- Balanchine, George
- Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929
- Geva, Tamara > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- Interview with Tamara Geva conducted by Nancy Reynolds on May 4, 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 in New York (N.Y.). The location is not specified but is probably in New York City.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good overall.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Funding (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-1860
- OCLC
- 35729074
- Author
Geva, Tamara, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Tamara Geva, 1976
- Imprint
1976.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded for the Oral History Project of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1976, May 4
- Funding
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.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately one hour and 27 minutes); polyester; half-track; 1.875 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto51860_v01f01p01_sc and myd_mgzto51860_v01f01p02_sc.
- Local Note
Arch. orig. *MGZTCO 3-1860.
Preservation copy: *MGZTP 4-1860, nos. 1 and 2.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1860, nos. 1 and 2.
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- Added Author
Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- interviewer.
DHCA
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-1860