| Description |
2 sound cassettes (ca. 133 min.) + edited transcript (71 leaves) |
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Frederic Franklin Oral History Project
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| Note |
Interview with Frederic Franklin conducted by Mindy Aloff, Monica Moseley, and Nancy Reynolds, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on June 7 and 13, 2000. These interviews were recorded for the Frederic Franklin Oral History Project; the Project is a collaboration between the George Balanchine Foundation and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. |
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The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise. |
| Summary |
Cassette 19, side A, 06/07/00 (ca. 23 min.). Frederic Franklin comments on photographs of George Balanchine's ballet Serenade shown to him at the interview; speaks about the reason Leonide Massine did not require him to use a Russian stage-name; ballets to be discussed at the next interview; the musical comedy Song of Norway. |
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Cassette 19, side B, 06/13/00 (ca. 38 min.). The interview begins approximately 3 min. into the recording. Franklin speaks about Massine's ballet Seventh symphony; including Massine's working method; Franklin's learning his role, the Spirit of creation; other characters in the ballet, including Adam and Eve, the snake, and rocks; his costume; the ballet's story; Massine's unhappiness with the choreography set to the fourth movement; performing the ballet on tour; becoming sick from the make-up applied to his body; his friendship with the accompanist Rachel Chapman; reason he enjoyed dancing in Seventh symphony; more on the fourth movement; the engaging of Nini Theilade to dance in Seventh symphony; comments on photographs of the ballet. [Ends abruptly.] |
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Cassette 20, side A, 06/13/00 (ca. 38 min.). Franklin speaks about Bronislava Nijinska's ballet Sleeping beauty [after Marius Petipa; referred to as Aurora's wedding in the interview], including first seeing it in Liverpool in 1929; the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's performance of the ballet, in Chicago; comments on drawings of costume designs for the ballet and photographs of the dancers; speaks about Nijinska's ballet Snow maiden, including the cast and the choreography; comments on photographs of Snow maiden; Michel Fokine's ballet Spectre de la rose, including his first seeing it, as staged by Anton Dolin; tells anecdotes about an accompanist Dolin employed [a woman, known as Turner]; begins to comment on photographs. [Ends abruptly.] |
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Cassette 20, side B, 06/13/00 (ca. 34 min.). Franklin continues to comment on photographs; speaks about the attempted murder of Paul Petroff; the musical comedy Song of Norway, including the recruiting of dancers from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; how George Balanchine came to be hired as the choreographer; Balanchine's innovation of ending the show with a ballet; Alexandra Danilova's enjoyment of her speaking role in Song of Norway; similarities between the choreography of Song of Norway and Danses concertantes; comments on photographs of Song of Norway; ballets to be discussed at the next interview. |
| Note |
The transcripts were prepared by the George Balanchine Foundation. The transcripts are edited versions of the recordings and may include material such as follow-up interviews, in person and by telephone, and explanatory notes, which are not included in the recording. |
| Local Note |
Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2253 nos. 19-20 |
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Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2253 nos. 19-20 |
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Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2253 no. 19-20 |
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Franklin, Frederic, 1914-
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Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-
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Dolin, Anton, 1904-
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Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979.
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Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
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Sleeping beauty (Choreographic work : Nijinska after Petipa, M)
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Seventh symphony (Choreographic work : Massine)
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Snow maiden (Choreographic work : Nijinska)
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Spectre de la rose (Choreographic work : Fokine)
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| Local Subject |
Musical comedies. Song of Norway.
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Audiotapes -- Franklin, F.
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| Added Author |
Moseley, Monica, Interviewer.
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Aloff, Mindy, 1947- Interviewer.
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Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- Interviewer.
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George Balanchine Foundation.
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| Donor/Sponsor |
Oral History Archive.
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| Call No. |
*MGZTC 3-2253 nos. 19-20 sound cassettes
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| Research Call Number |
*MGZTC 3-2253 nos. 19-20 sound cassettes
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*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 19-20 transcript
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*MGZTC 3-2253 nos. 19-20
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