- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 40 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). [Begins abruptly.] Bertram Ross speaks with Selma Jeanne Cohen about the Martha Graham technique including changes over the years; teaching Graham technique, including exercises used and the principles of the Graham contraction and release [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 46 minutes). Bertram Ross continues to speak with Selma Jeanne Cohen about Graham technique including the filming of Martha Graham's work and his thoughts on various aspects of Graham's choreography [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 3].
- Streaming file 3 (approximately 8 minutes). Bertram Ross continues to speak with Selma Jeanne Cohen about Martha Graham and her work including an anecdote about her costume in Deaths and entrances.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Bertram Ross conducted by Selma Jeanne Cohen on June 22, 1971 in New York City.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by extraneous noise, and the interviewer's voice is soft. However, Bertram Ross's voice is almost always 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-1794
- OCLC
- 43744363
- Author
Ross, Bertram, 1920-2003, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Bertram Ross, 1971
- Production
1971
- 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 Selma Jeanne Cohen 1971, June 22, New York City
- 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: two sound cassettes (approximately one hour and 40 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco31794_v01f01_sc, myd_mgztco31794_v01f02_sc, and myd_mgztco31794_v02f01_sc) formats in 2015.
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- Added Author
Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-1794