- Additional Authors
- Conway, Peter, 1929 July 18-
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 3 hours and 13 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming file 1, May 11, 1979 (approximately one hour and 37 minutes). Frederic Franklin speaks with Peter Conway about Leonide Massine and Eugenia Delarova including her creative influence on Massine; Massine as a person; some of Franklin's roles in Massine's ballets including his (and Argentinita' s) Capriccio espagnol; Tamara Toumanova; ballet mothers; Ruthanna Boris; partnering various ballerinas including Alicia Markova, Irina Baronova, and Alexandra Danilova; particularly arduous roles; ballet dancers and cigarettes including an anecdote about Danilova; Bronislava Nijinska; Danilova as a dancer; Massine's ballet The New Yorker; his work Vienna - 1914, including anecdotes about Sol Hurok; the problems with reviving Massine's ballets; Massine's ballet Saratoga; performing the Dandy in Massine's Boutique fantasque; a performance anecdote about Massine's Seventh Symphony and Roland Guerand; Franklin's policy of having a good relationship with the orchestra's conductor and the wardrobe mistress; reasons Massine left the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
- Streaming file 2, May 18, 1979 (approximately one hour and 36 minutes). Frederic Franklin speaks with Peter Conway about the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and his impressions of Michel Panaieff, Marc Platoff [Platt], George Zoritch, Boris Kochno, and Yura [George] Skibine; Massine's ballet Bacchanale; the outbreak of World War II while he was in France; Serge Lifar and his work Icare; Lubov Rostova and Lubov Roudenko including an anecdote about Danilova and Roudenko; Jeanette Lauret; André Eglevsky; Franklin's relationship with Igor Youskevitch; Marc Platt's ballet Ghost town; George Balanchine including his Les Ballet 1933; Marie-Jeanne; Balanchine's staging of Serenade and Poker game [Jeu de cartes] on the company; costumes in which it was impossible to dance including his costume as the Minotaur in [Massine's] Labyrinth; the costumes [in Bacchanale]; performing in Alexandra Fedorova's staging of The nutcracker; Jimmy [James] Starbuck; various reasons as to why Alicia Markova left the company; other dancers who left the company in 1941.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Oral histories
- Sound recordings
- Ghost town (Choreographic work : Platt)
- Icare (Choreographic work : Lifar)
- Bacchanale (Choreographic work : Massine)
- Saratoga (Choreographic work : Massine)
- Vienna - 1814 (Choreographic work : Massine)
- New Yorker (Choreographic work : Massine)
- Kochno, Boris
- Skibine, George, 1920-1981
- Zoritch, George, 1917-2009
- Panaieff, Michel
- Balanchine, George
- Platt, Marc, 1913-2014
- Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997
- Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013 > Interviews
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Marie-Jeanne, 1920-2007
- Toumanova, Tamara, 1919-1996
- Starbuck, James
- Nijinska, Bronislava, 1891-1972
- Eglevsky, André
- Delarova, Eugenia
- Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Oral histories.
- Note
- For transcript of interview see *MGZMT 5-1095, volumes 6-9, pages 286-426.
- Interview with Frederic Franklin conducted by Peter Conway for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Oral History Project at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, on May 11 and 18, 1979. Part 1 (April 30 and May 1, 1979), Part 2 (May 7 and 8, 1979), Part 4 (October 24 and 25, 1979), Part 5 (October 9, 12, and 22, 1981), Part 6 (October 22 and 27, 1981), and Part 7 (November 3 and 5, 1981) are cataloged separately.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good in streaming file 1. Streaming file 2 is marred by occasional fluctuations in volume and by extraneous noise, apparently from (mild) distortion in the original recording.
- 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 5-1095
- OCLC
- 994684830
- Author
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Frederic Franklin. Part 3 of 7: May 11 and May 18, 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 for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts May 11 and 18, 1979 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 3 hours and 13 minutes); polyester; half-track; 1.875 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto51095_v03f01_sc and myd_mgzto51095_v03f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZT 5-1095
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- Added Author
Conway, Peter, 1929 July 18- interviewer
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-1095