Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Nicholas Polajenko and Igor Youskevitch, and, Interview with Virginia Gross, 1965.

Author

Polajenko, Nicholas

Publication

1965

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horosko, Marian
• Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994
• Gross, Virginia
• Reiss, Alvin H.

Description

One streaming file (approximately 27 minutes) : digital, stereo

Summary

• Streaming file (approximately first 12:55 minutes). [Music and introductory remarks by an unidentified announcer; introductory remarks by Marian Horosko]. Nicholas Polajenko speaks with Marian Horosko about his career; Igor Youskevitch speaks about some of his partners; his company Ballet Romantique including his choice of the adjective "romantique;" Youskevitch and Polajenko speak about Rudolf Nureyev as a dancer; the short dance film [title not given] they are making, to be loosely based on events in Youskevitch's career. [The interview with Polajenko and Youskevitch ends at approximately 12:52 minutes; Horosko introduces host, Alvin H. Reiss.]
• Streaming file (from approximately 12:55 minutes to 27:04 minutes). Alvin H. Reiss introduces his guest Virginia Gross, director of International Dance Tours; Virginia Gross speaks with Reiss about taking a group of Americans to Europe to learn about ballroom dancing there; the diverse backgrounds of the participants; meeting with local ballroom dancers and teachers in the cities they visited; her hope that ballroom dancing will become an Olympic sport; plans for future tours. [The interview with Virginia Gross ends at approximately 21:52 minutes. The remainder of the recording contains closing remarks and announcements by Marian Horosko and music and closing remarks by an unidentified announcer.]

Alternative Title

• Interview with Igor Youskevitch
• Interview with Virginia Gross

Subjects

• Polajenko, Nicholas > Interviews
• Radio interviews
• Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994 > Interviews
• Gross, Virginia > Interviews
• Dance in motion pictures, television, etc
• Ballroom dancing

Genre/Form

Radio interviews.

Note

• Interview with Nicholas Polajenko and Igor Youskevitch conducted by Marian Horosko (approximately 12 minutes), and interview with Virginia Gross conducted by Alvin H. Reiss (approximately 10 minutes), for broadcast on radio station WNYC-FM, New York, on its series World of Dance, in November, 1965. The interview with Polajenko and Youskevitch includes discussion of a short dance film then a work-in-progress, but it was not possible to determine its title or whether it was ever finished and distributed.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Sound quality is good.

Access (note)

• Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Funding (note)

• The conservation 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.

OCLC

919495937

Author

Polajenko, Nicholas, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Nicholas Polajenko and Igor Youskevitch, and, Interview with Virginia Gross, 1965.

Production

1965

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

Restricted Access

Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.

Event

Recorded for broadcast on radio station WNYC-FM for its program World of Dance November, 1965 New York (N.Y.)

Funding

The conservation 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.

Original Version

Original format: one sound reel (approximately 27 minutes); 10"; acetate; half-track; 7.5 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2014: myd_mgzto103024_v01f01_sc.

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Added Author

Horosko, Marian, interviewer.

Youskevitch, Igor, 1912-1994, interviewee.

Gross, Virginia, interviewee.

Reiss, Alvin H., interviewer.

Added Title

Interview with Igor Youskevitch

Interview with Virginia Gross