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[Rehearsal piano music for West Side waltz].

Title: [Rehearsal piano music for West Side waltz].
Publication: 1981.

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Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, 1971-1990.

Description

1 streaming audio file (8:51) : digital, mono.

Summary

This recording is a rundown (rehearsal) of piano pieces excerpts being used for cues for scenes in both Act 1 and 2 of the Broadway play "The West Side waltz", and as a practice tape for Katharine Hepburn. Not all of the music featured in the play is on this recording. Ms. Hepburn piano teacher/consulant Laura Fratti is performing the pieces as Ms. Hepburn and an unidentified audio enginner (?) provides additional commentary.

Alternative Title

Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials

Subjects

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

Title from cataloger.
"Scale-Mother ; Gelaufigkeit-Czerny ; Bach lyrical" --From original audiocassette label.
Side 1 only.

Access (note)

Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Source (note)

Billy Rose Theatre Division, Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994);

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, *L(Special) 08-31.

Contents

[Act 1, scene 1]: My mother's exercise (scales) -- [Act 1, scene 2, cue 2]: [no. 31 from "Schule der] Geläufigkeit (2 times) / Czerny -- [Act 1, scene 2, cue 5]: [Excerpt] Bach concerto (Lyrical section) [BWV 1052, first movement: Allegro]: 1st attempt ; 2nd attempt (longer version) [audio track erratic] / J. S. Bach -- [Act 1, scene 3, cue 2]: [Excerpt] Bach concerto (Agitated) [BWV 1052, first movement: Allegro (Beginning)] / J. S. Bach -- [Act 2, scene 1]: [Excerpt] Tempest sonata: (Piano sonata no. 17, third movement: Allegretto) / Beethoven -- [Act 2, scene 3]: [Excerpt] Wine women, and song / J. Strauss II [audio erratic] -- [Excerpt] Bach concerto [BWV 1052, first movement: Allegro] / J. S. Bach -- [Commentary by Katharine Hepburn] -- [Excerpts] Bach concerto [BWV 1052, third movement: Allegro] Version 1 ; Version 2 / J. S. Bach.

Call Number

*LTC-A 1396

OCLC

903912194

Title

[Rehearsal piano music for West Side waltz].

Production

1981.

Playing Time

000851

Type of Content

performed music

Type of Medium

audio

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Performer

[Laura Fratti, piano] ; Katharine Hepburn, commentary ; [Unidentified recording engineer?]

Event

Recording Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, N. Y. 1981.

Access

Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.

Original Version

Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, mono, Dolby B) in *LTC-A 1396.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, *L(Special) 08-31.

Local Note

Preservation file: (1 audio file : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_ltca1396_v01f01_em]

Source

Separated from; Billy Rose Theatre Division, Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994); 2007.

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Added Author

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003.

Music for (work): Thompson, Ernest, 1949- West Side waltz.

Hepburn, Katharine, 1907-2003, commentator.

Fratti, Laura, performer.

Container of (work): Czerny, Carl, 1791-1857. Schule der Geläufigkeit. No. 31. Selections.

Container of (work): Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Concertos, harpsichord, string orchestra, BWV 1052, D minor. Selections; arranged.

Container of (work): Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Sonatas, piano, no. 17, op. 31, no. 2, D minor. Allegretto. Selections; arranged.

Container of (work): Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899. Wein, Weib, Gesang. Selections; arranged.

Added Title

Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials

Found In:

Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, 1971-1990.

Research Call Number

*LTC-A 1396

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