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Interview with Robert M. Abramson

Title
Interview with Robert M. Abramson [sound recording].
Author
Robert M. Abramson.
Publication
2006.

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AudioSupervised use *MGZMT 3-2469 transcriptPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
discs 1-2AudioUse in library *MGZTL 4-2469 discs 1-2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Arizmendi, Kathy.
Description
2 sound discs (ca. 107 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 56 min.) 06/06/06. Kathy Arizmendi introduces Robert M. Abramson with some brief background; he describes his introduction to music lessons and to music; his education, both academic and musical; mastering his difficulties with reading music; his first Eurythmics teacher, Hilda Schuster; his interest in the original ideas put forth by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze; his process of earning the Dalcroze credentials; his teaching; discusses his writing; connecting movement to the creation of his music; the limitations he found in Schuster's teaching and reflections on current Dalcroze teaching.
  • Disc 2, tracks 1-37 (ca. 37 min.), 06/13/06. Robert M. Abramson discusses Dalcroze's life and work and the many forms his teaching took; Abramson's own and Dalcroze's concern that the original Dalcroze methodology not be lost; the unavailability of Dalcroze's writing for most students and the disproportionate availability of material aimed toward children; the re-emergence of adult- focused teaching at select conservatories in recent years; other aspects of the Dalcroze teaching that he feels have been undervalued or lost; describes some basic Dalcroze exercises that form the backbone of the method.
  • Disc 2, tracks 37-51 (ca. 24 min.), 08/25/06. Robert M. Abramson speaks about the teaching of improvisation and the value of Dalcroze's work in this area; the limitations of current teaching and teachers including Schuster; more on Dalcroze's teaching; Dalcroze's dismissal from the Geneva Conservatory and the subsequent movement of the method toward dance pedagogy and the changes and limitations that resulted.
Donor/Sponsor
New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Robert M. Abramson conducted by Kathy Arizmendi on June 6, June 13, and August 25, 2006, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2469.
Access (note)
  • Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2469
OCLC
NYPY06-R64
Author
Robert M. Abramson. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Robert M. Abramson [sound recording].
Imprint
2006.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2006-2007.
Restricted Access
Photography of the transcript permitted for research purposes only.
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Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Abramson, R.
Added Author
Arizmendi, Kathy. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2469 [sound disc]
*MGZMT 3-2469 [transcript]
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