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Author Brown, Vida, Interviewee.
Title Interview with Vida Brown Olnick [sound recording].
Imprint 1998.
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 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZMT 3-2150 (transcript)    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS
 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance  *MGZTC 3-2150 (sound cassette)    AVAILABLE CLOSED STACKS

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Description 1 sound cassette (approx. 25 min.) + 1 transcript (13 leaves ; 28 cm.)
Series New York City Ballet at 50, interviews
Note For transcript, see *MGZMT 3-2150.
Interviewed by Hubert Goldschmidt on November 23, 1998, in New York City Ballet's Education Office.
Summary Former New York City Ballet dancer Vida Brown Olnick discusses becoming ballet mistress for New York City Ballet and her responsibilities as ballet mistress; she speculates about George Balanchine's reasons for assigning her the job. She discusses restaging Gounod Symphony for the Company in 1985, the different demands of working with Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and the process of replacing ailing dancers in Company repertoire.
Local Note Preservation master cassette: *MGZTCO 3-2142, 5 of 13/Side B.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2150.
Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2150.
Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Subject Brown, Vida -- Interviews.
Balanchine, George.
Robbins, Jerome.
New York City Ballet.
Local Subject Audiotapes -- Brown, V.
Added Author Goldschmidt, Hubert, 1942- Interviewer.
Donor/Sponsor Oral History Archive. Oral History Project.
Call No. *MGZMT 3-2150 [Transcript]
Research Call Number *MGZMT 3-2150 [Transcript]
*MGZTC 3-2150 [Cassette]