- Additional Authors
- Conway, Peter, 1929 July 18-
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 2 hours and 51 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1, March 1, 1979 (approximately one hour and 37 minutes). Fred Danieli speaks with Peter Conway about Ballet Society; George Balanchine's The four temperaments including the original costumes and cast; Tanaquil LeClerq; working with Balanchine; his impressions of Frank (Francisco) Moncion; Balanchine's L'enfant et les sortilèges and his Renard; performing in the Broadway musical Call me mister while also dancing for Ballet Society; Ballet Society's audience; Ballet Society's repertoire including Balanchine's ballet Divertimento; John Taras' Minotaur; William Dollar's Highland fling; Todd Bolender's Zodiac; Lew Christensen's Blackface; Merce Cunningham's Seasons; Danieli's Punch and the child; John Cranko's choreographing of a ballet using the same score, by Richard Arnell; his current use of the original costumes in his production of The nutcracker for the Garden State Ballet.
- Streaming audio file 2, April 19, 1979 (approximately one hour and 16 minutes). Fred Danieli speaks with Peter Conway about his leaving Ballet Society just before its first season as the resident company of City Center [of Drama and Music]; establishing the Garden State Ballet and other dance-related initiatives he took in New Jersey; developing the audience and the repertoire; his son and his wife; George Balanchine as one of several choreographers when Danieli was with Ballet Caravan and Ballet Society; differences in dancers of today and his time; the current status of dance and dance education in the United States and ideas as how it could be improved; his memories of class with Anatole Oboukhoff.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- For transcript of interviews see *MGZMT 5-735.
- Interview with Fred Danieli conducted by Peter Conway in New York (N.Y.) as part of the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on March 1 and April 20, 1979. Part 1 (January 17 and 23, 1979) and Part 2 (January 30 and February 6, 1979) are cataloged separately.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-735
- OCLC
- 988328516
- Author
Danieli, Fred, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Fred Danieli. Part 3 of 3: March 1 and April 20, 1979
- Imprint
1979
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
- Event
Recorded by Peter Conway 1979, March 1 and April 20 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 2 hours and 51 minutes); polyester; half-track; 1 7/8 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto5735_v03f01_sc and myd_mgzto5735_v03f02_sc.
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- Added Author
Conway, Peter, 1929 July 18- interviewer.