- Additional Authors
- Description
- 4 streaming files (approximately one hour and 43minutes ) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file 1 (approximately 49 minutes). Rose Tilep speaks with Elizabeth Kendall about Isadora Duncan including her admiration for Duncan; her first meeting Duncan, in Moscow, and being engaged as an interpreter at Duncan's school [Shkola Aĭsedory Dunkan]; the children at the school; Duncan's marriage to Sergei Yesenin [Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich Esenin] and Tilep's return to the United States; the daily routine at the school; Duncan's practice of dancing for the children in order to inspire them;(very briefly) Irma Duncan as a teacher; various activities arranged for the children; Emma Goldman; other dancers and opera singers Tilep saw perform [ends abruptly].
- Streaming file 2 (approximately 3 minutes). Rose Tilep continues to speak with Elizabeth Kendall about Isadora Duncan [ends abruptly].
- Streaming file 3 (approximately 49 minutes). Rose Tilep speaks with Marilyn Hunt about Isadora Duncan and her family including her sister Elizabeth Duncan; how she met Isadora Duncan, in Moscow and came to work for her; the children at the school; Tilep's responsibilities at the school; Duncan's marriage to Sergei Yesenin and the problems this caused; Duncan's unhappiness; Irma Duncan; Gordon Craig; how Duncan looked when Tilep knew her in Moscow; the scarcity of food in Moscow at the time; celebrating Christmas at the school; more on Gordon Craig; an anecdote about Duncan and her pianist; the children's performances at the Bolshoi Theater; Tilep's daughter [ends abruptly].
- Streaming file 4 (approximately two minutes). Rose Tilep continues to speak with Marilyn Hunt about the classes at Isadora Duncan's school.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Rose Tilep in two parts: conducted by Elizabeth Kendall in June 1977 and by Marilyn Hunt in September 1977, in New York City for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division Oral History Project.
- For transcript see: *MGZMT 5-354.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair. There is extraneous noise including significant "tape hiss" and short gaps. However, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible. At times, the interviewee, Rose Tilep pauses to search for a book or photograph.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 5-354
- OCLC
- 892485906
- Author
Tilep, Rose, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Rose Tilep : in two parts. June and September, 1977.
- Production
1977
- 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 The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 1977, June and September, 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: two sound reels (approximately one hour and 43 minutes); 5"; polyester; half-track; 3.75ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file formats in 2014.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZT 5-354
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- Added Author
Hunt, Marilyn, 1937- interviewer.
Kendall, Elizabeth, 1947- interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 5-354