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Interview with Frederic Franklin.

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Status	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.	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 37	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. 37 sound cassette	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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1 sound cassette (ca. 89 min.) +

Summary

Cassette 37, side A (ca. 50 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 speaks about Ruthanna Boris; the dancer Harriet Toby; Sergei Denham's policy regarding the dancers' billings; the re-use of bodices and tutus; more on Boris; injuries and diet of dancers in the company; an anecdote about Boris, Nina Novak, and Antonia Cobos' work The mute wife; Vitorio Rieti, the composer of the score of George Balanchine's ballet Night shadow, including the circumstances of the ballet's creation; the dancer Tamara Toumanova, including her relationship with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; her strengths as a dancer. [Ends abruptly.]
Cassette 37, side B (ca. 39 min.). Franklin continues to speak about Toumanova; Leonide Massine's ballet Saratoga; more on Toumanova; Natasha [Nathalie] Krassovska , including an anecdote about her wedding; her repertory; speaks briefly about her dancing as compared to that of Boris, Toumanova, Mary Ellen Moylan, and Maria Tallchief.

Alternative Title

Dance 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 Dec. 4, 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.
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.
For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2253 no. 37.
The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.

Access (note)

Call Number

*MGZTC 3-2253 no. 37

OCLC

NYPY05-R10003

Author

Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Frederic Franklin. Dec. 4, 2000 [sound recording].

Imprint

2000.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-2253 no. 37

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2253 no. 37, nos. 1-2

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-2253 no. 37

Restricted Access

Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

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Audiotapes -- Franklin, F.

Added Author

Aloff, Mindy, 1947- Interviewer

Moseley, Monica. Interviewer

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTC 3-2253 no. 37 sound cassette

*MGZMT 3-2253 no. 37 transcript