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Interview with Frederic Franklin.

Title: Interview with Frederic Franklin. July 19, 2000 [sound recording].
Author: Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013.
Publication: 2000.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Pt. 1	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 31-32 Pt. 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Pt. 2	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 31-32 Pt. 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2253 no. 31 sound cassette	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.		Audio	Use in library	*MGZTC 3-2253 no. 32 sound cassette	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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2 sound cassettes (ca. 117 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 31, side A (ca. 38 min.). The recording includes Frederic Franklin's comments made in reference to selections from the correspondence files of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Franklin describes the correspondence with George Balanchine as mainly concerning financial matters; the circumstances of Balanchine's staging Serenade for the company; the role of Leonide Massine in engaging Balanchine; discussion of the fees paid to Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, Barbara Karinska, and Franklin; Sergei Denham's skill in negotiating fees; rehearsing ballets in the presence of the scores' composers; Emmanuel Balaban, Efrem Kurtz, and other conductors engaged by the company; Anton Dolin's choreographing of the ballet Scènes de ballet to Stravinsky's score, including the ballet's relation to the musical comedy, Seven lively arts; possible reasons Balanchine did not choreograph a ballet using this score. [Ends abruptly.]
Cassette 31, side B (ca. 38 min.). Discussion continues regarding Balanchine's reasons for not choreographing Scènes de ballet; Franklin's dancing for Ballet Theatre [later, American Ballet Theatre] in the season before it closed; the use of ground cloths; Balanchine's approach to narrative ballets; rehearsing his ballet Night shadow; other narrative ballets by Balanchine, including Baiser de la fée, Jeu de cartes, and Don Quixote; Massine's care not to change the choreography of others' works; Massine's difficulties with Mikhail Fokine's Prince Igor. [Ends abruptly.]
Cassette 32 side A (ca. 41 min.). Franklin and the interviewers discuss whether Balanchine was in fact, the author of certain letters in the correspondence files; Franklin speaks about Baiser de la fée; Fokine's ballet Lieutenant Kizhe [Russian soldier]; works Franklin saw at Ballet Theatre, including Balanchine's Theme and variations and Balustrade; Alice Nikitina and her role in Balanchine's ballet La chatte; Massine's ballet Jeux d'enfants [short gap; begins again abruptly]; comments briefly on a list of choreographers, dancers, and other artists shown to him at the interview [short gap; begins again abruptly]; Franklin relates an anecdote about himself and Dolores del Rio. [Ends abruptly.]

Series Statement

Frederic Franklin Oral History Project

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

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Note

Interview with Frederic Franklin conducted by Mindy Aloff, Phillip Karg, and Nancy Reynolds at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on July 19, 2000. The interview was 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.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2253 no. 31-32.
The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
Side B of cassette 32 is blank.
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.

Access (note)

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-2253 nos. 31-32

OCLC

NYPY05-R7

Author

Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Frederic Franklin. July 19, 2000 [sound recording].

Imprint

2000.

Series

Frederic Franklin Oral History Project

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2253 nos. 31-32

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2253 nos. 31-32

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2253 no. 31-32

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Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Franklin, F.

Added Author

Aloff, Mindy, 1947- Interviewer

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- Interviewer

Karg, Phillip. Interviewer

George Balanchine Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-2253 nos. 31-32 sound cassettes

*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 31-32 transcript

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