Research Catalog

Recording session of The Feld Ballet

Title
Recording session of The Feld Ballet / WNET/13.
Publication
1979.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Feld, Eliot.
  • Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
  • WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Description
5 streaming audio files (approximately 1 hour and 23 minutes): digital
Summary
  • Streaming audio file 1, January 10, 1979 (approximately 21 minutes). [Technical notes and decibel-setting tone]; voices of children and an unidentified female, who leads the children in a ballet class to piano accompaniment.
  • Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 22 minutes). [Technical notes.] Continuation of class.
  • Streaming audio file 3 (approximately 15 minutes). [Technical notes.] Continuation of class; [at 8:43] beginning of discussion between Eliot Feld and Aaron Copland regarding Copland's work Danzón cubano (which Feld uses in his dance Danzon cubano); following an excerpt played by the orchestra, discussion resumes.
  • Streaming audio file 4 (approximately 18 minutes). [Technical notes.] Music continues; discussion between Eliot Feld and Aaron Copland, including Copland's thoughts on choreographers' use of his music; his work Danzón cubano; his work Salón México and how he became familiar with Mexican music; more on choreographers' use of his music, including Feld's use of Salón México in his work La vida; Feld and Copland speak about Cuba including the fact that Feld has never been there.;
  • Streaming audio file 5 (approximately 7 minutes). Eliot Feld speaks briefly about various matters, including serapes and his studio; music (including from Copland's Salón México) is played by the orchestra.
Donor/Sponsor
New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.
Alternative Title
Dance Audio Archive
Subjects
Genre/Form
Sound recordings.
Note
  • Recording of a production session held on January 10, 1979, in connection with the filming of The Feld Ballet, a television program broadcast on May 16, 1979 as part of the Dance in America series by WNET/13, New York. The session includes a dance class for children, mainly to piano accompaniment, and a discussion between Eliot Feld and Aaron Copland, including with respect to Copland's works Danzón cubano and Salón México. The voice heard giving technical directions may be that Emile Ardolino, the director of the program. An earlier recording of an orchestra rehearsal for this program, of music by Morton Gould, as well as a discussion between Feld and Gould, held on December 19, 1978, is in the Library's collection and cataloged as Orchestra rehearsal for the Feld Ballet/WNET/13. A videocassette of the finished program is also in the Library's collection and cataloged as *MGZIC 9-114.
  • Overall, the sound quality is good. There are frequent technical notes and comments, other extraneous noises, and short gaps.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
  • Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Funding (note)
  • The processing 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
*MGZTO 5-2270
OCLC
79419561
Title
Recording session of The Feld Ballet / WNET/13.
Imprint
1979.
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Funding
The processing 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.
Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original Version
Original format: five sound reels (approximately 1 hour and 23 minutes minutes); polyester; half-track; 7.5 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto52270_v01f01_sc, myd_mgzto52270_v02f01_sc, myd_mgzto52270_v03f01_sc, myd_mgzto52270_v04f01_sc, and myd_mgzto52270_v05f01_sc.
Event
Recorded by WNET/13 January 10,1979 New York (N.Y.)
Local Note
Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2270 nos. 1-2
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2270 nos. 1-2
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Added Author
Feld, Eliot.
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-2270
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