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Interview with Hortense Kessler Green
- Title
- Interview with Hortense Kessler Green [sound recording].
- Author
- Green, Hortense Kessler.
- Publication
- 2001.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *MGZTC 3-2314 cassette | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hunt, Marilyn, 1937-
- Description
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 85 min.)
- Summary
- Hortense Kessler discusses her family background; the beginnings of her dance training with various teachers including Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and José Limón; auditioning for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; being invited to take classes at the school and then joining the company; different dancers she saw perform during these years; she and Hunt look over some memorabalia; more on travelling and working with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet; her impressions of Boris Romanoff; various works that she enjoyed performing.
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Alternative Title
- Dance Oral History Project.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Hortense Kessler Green conducted by Marilyn Hunt at Hunt's home in New York City on April 25, 2001.
- The recording is marred by extraneous noise.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2314
- OCLC
- NYPY06-R28
- Author
- Green, Hortense Kessler. Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with Hortense Kessler Green [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2001.
- Funding
- Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Green, H.
- Added Author
- Hunt, Marilyn, 1937- Interviewer
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-2314 [sound cassette]